| Medium: | oil on canvas laid down on fiberboard |
| Size: | 24 x 15.5 in (61 x 40 cm) |
| Inscription: | l/r "FSchafer", initials conjoined in a monogram, in the artist's characteristic block letter hand. |
| Verso: | center, "NE" encircled; u/l "New* / 45 - " (indistinct) |
| Provenance: | Offered 26 January 2013 by Case Antiques, Inc., Knoxville, Tennessee, as lot 191 (not sold), then sold 25 January 2014 for $738 as lot 857 in "Winter Fine Art and Antiques Auction. |
| Reproductions: | Case Antiques, Inc. 26 January 2013 sale catalog and 25 January 2014 sale catalog. |
| Site: | Unidentified; may be Lassen Butte in northern California. |
| Identification: | Assigned, descriptive title. The sale catalog identifies the painting as "El Capitan", but the geologic feature in the painting resembles neither the El Capitan of Yosemite Valley nor the El Capitan Butte in Monument Valley, Arizona. The sale catalog title is most likely a misidentification. |
| Other title(s): | El Capitan (from Case Antiques, Inc. sale catalog) |
| In index(es): | Title list, fishing scenes, Indian encampments as incidental subjects |
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