| Medium: | oil on canvas |
| Size: | 20 x 36 in (51 x 91 cm) |
| Inscription: | said to be l/l "F. Schafer" |
| Verso: | said to be "Valley in the Rocky Mountains Colorado" |
| Provenance: | With Braarud Fine Art, LaConner, Washington; to private collection, Colorado by 1998. |
| Citations: | Inventory of American Paintings… record 67530091 |
| Description: | Two large mountain ranges are viewed through a wide valley with steep cliffs on both sides, a hanging valley beyond, and an Indian encampment in a meadow beside a river. The distant range is snow-covered, while the nearer one is brown, below a cloudless blue sky. A waterfull tumbles down at the left of a double-peaked rock cliff on the left; another waterfall exits the hanging valley beyond a forest in the back fo the meadow. At the left edge of the forest is a large rock formation, in front of which are a handful of tepees surrounded by several Indians. Near the river and slightly closer to the viewer stand an Indian on horseback, a second Indian the ground, and a child. On the steep slope to the left of the river two conifers stand in front of a rock outcrop. To the right, a snag lies down the river bank. (From a color photograph.) |
| Note: | A painting with this title was sold in a September 1884 auction in San Francisco, but the information in the newspaper report is insufficient to either include or exclude the possibility that either of those is this painting. |
| Other title(s): | Colorado (Braarud Fine Art) |
| In index(es): | Title list, Indian encampments as incidental subjects, unidentified mountain scenes |
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