The Maid of the Forest
Date1913
Artist
Frank Earle Schoonover
(American illustrator and painter, 1877–1972)
Illustration CitationThe Maid of the Forest: A Romance of the St. Clair's Defeat, by Randall Parrish (Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1913)
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions39 1/2 × 29 1/2 in. (100.3 × 74.9 cm)
frame: 45 1/2 × 35 1/2 in. (115.6 × 90.2 cm)
frame: 45 1/2 × 35 1/2 in. (115.6 × 90.2 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Joseph Bancroft, 1942
Object number1942-12
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextThe subject of this painting plays a role in a fictional treatment of St. Clair's Defeat, an 1871 battle in which the United States Army was routed by a confederacy of Native Americans in the Northwest Territory, the area now including the state of Ohio. Frank Schoonover's depiction reflects the novel's highly romanticized and anglicized image of a Native American woman.
