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Remember those `Silver Skates'?

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19860112
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Recognize this picture? It's of Hans Brinker, that famous Dutch lad, in the exhibition "The Best of American Illustration," opening Friday through March 2 in the Terra Museum of American Art, 2600 Central Park, Evanston.

The Brinker illustration, by Frank Schoonover, was commissioned for a 1924 edition of Mary Mapes Dodge's Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates, originally published in 1865. It's among 74 illustrations done for U.S. and English books or magazine covers between the 1880s and 1950. Among the illustrators represented are Howard Pyle, Charles Dana Gibson, Andrew and N. C. Wyeth ...

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