| Date: | undated |
| Medium: | oil on canvas |
| Size: | 22 x 36 in (56 x 91 cm) |
| Inscription: | l/r "F. Schafer." in red, in the artist's block-letter hand, initials conjoined in a monogram |
| Verso: | canvas, lower center, "After a Storm in the White Mountains", in the artist's block-letter hand, in black brush |
| Provenance: | With Garzoli Gallery, San Francisco, in 1975. With Butterfield & Butterfield, San Francisco, 17 March 1982 (passed). With Butterfield & Butterfield, San Francisco, 21 July 1982 (passed). With Montgomery Gallery, San Francisco, 12 August 1989. With Robert W. Skinner Inc., Bolton, Mass., 13 November 1992 (passed). To private collection, Mendocino, California, 1 October 1998. |
| Reproductions: | Butterfield & Butterfield 17 March 1982 sale catalog 3192, lot 448A; Butterfield & Butterfield 21 July 1982 sale catalog 3210A, lot 1086; Robert W. Skinner Inc. 13 November 1992 sale catalog 1475, lot 64A; Early California and Western Art Research/Schafer slide #57 (color, 1982); William K. Dick photo #56 (color, undated) |
| Citations: | Inventory of American Paintings… record 71067296 |
| Description: | The sun highlights a fisherman wearing a wide-brimmed hat, on a raging creek under a windblown tree which fills the left side of the picture. A bright green glade behind the figure and bright red and green fishing gear catch the eye; the rapids in the river are a brilliant white. Dead trees and branches litter the foreground on both sides; on the right is a gnarled mass of fallen trees; a small hill stands in the right background and a slightly larger hill is indistinctly visible in the center background. A bright but cloud-filled grey sky with a small patch of blue near the center completely blocks in the view. (From the painting, 12 Aug 1989, at the Montgomery Gallery.) |
| Note: | 1. This painting and In the White Mountains [1] seem to be views of the same site. 2. A painting with the same title was offered as lot 98 on page 7 in the catalog of a 17 November 1885 auction in San Francisco but there is not enough information in that catalog to either include or exclude the possibility that it is the same painting. |
| Legend: | The Inventory of American Paintings listing offers the date of "c. 1880", perhaps based on the appearance of a painting with the same title described in note 2 above. |
| Identification: | The photo from William K. Dick is identified with Garzoli, and the Inventory entry identifies Garzoli as its informant. All of the photographs appear to be of the same painting. |
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