Indian Sun Priest
Date1927
Artist
Frank Earle Schoonover
(American illustrator and painter, 1877–1972)
Illustration CitationCover illustration for "Red Crow's Brother," by James Willard Schultz, in The American Boy, August 1927
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions34 1/4 × 38 1/4 in. (87 × 97.2 cm)
frame: 34 1/4 × 38 1/2 in. (87 × 97.8 cm)
frame: 34 1/4 × 38 1/2 in. (87 × 97.8 cm)
Credit LineLouisa du Pont Copeland Memorial Fund, 1933
Object number1933-1
On View
On viewClassificationsPAINTING
Label Text“Red Crow’s Brother” is a fictional piece about a European-American man who learns the language and culture of the Blackfeet people of the Montana Territory in order to trade with them. Here, he observes their religious leader, Three Bears, creating a lodge covering that depicts his sacred helpers Sun and Thunderbird. Frank Schoonover was well known for his illustrations of outdoor adventure stories, especially of the Canadian and American West. He maintained a studio in Wilmington throughout his career and, with Stanley Arthurs, was a founder in 1912 of the Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts, the predecessor of the Delaware Art Museum.
