He Was as Good a Wrestler as He Was a Good Swordsman, but, with Bitter Anger in My Heart and a Vision of the Haunted Wood before My Eyes, I Think I Could Have Wrestled with Hercules and Won

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Frank E. Schoonover

(American, 1877 - 1972)

He Was as Good a Wrestler as He Was a Good Swordsman, but, with Bitter Anger in My Heart and a Vision of the Haunted Wood before My Eyes, I Think I Could Have Wrestled with Hercules and Won

1931

32 × 24 in. (81.3 × 61 cm)

74.5

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Gift of the Estate of S. Martha DeBartholomeis, 1974

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