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Frederick Ferdinand Schafer Painting Catalog

Painting record FFSd0600

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[photo] [Mount Shasta 19]

Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 30 x 50 in (76 x 127 cm)
Inscription: l/r "F. Schafer", in black, vertical accent over the "a", in the artist's characteristic block-letter hand
Verso: (not visible; back is covered with foam-core)
Provenance: With Butterfield & Butterfield 8 December 1998. Sold 5 August 2014 for $5000+25% by Bonhams as lot 6 in sale 21780.
Reproductions: 8 December 1998 sale catalog 6847D/D16, lot 2050 5 August 2014 on-line sale catalog
Attribution: Although this painting has a typical composition, palette, and signature for Schafer, it is unusual in that there is no staffage, the illumination is relatively uniform rather than having a central focus and there are no standing, leaning, or fallen snags and no apparent debris.
Site: Mount Shasta, viewed from the west, through an unidentified river valley.
Description: A rather roughly sketched view of the mountain through a river valley that has little detail, especially in the farther reaches. A stratovolcano with a secondary cone on the left stands in the center without quite dominating the painting against a mostly cloudy sky tinged with pink. The cap of the mountain is bare rock, with snow-covered rock below, especially on the left (North) side. The river is in the right center; the left bank a moderate slope cluttered with several large boulders; farther up the slope five conifers are tall enough to be silhouetted against the sky, the advance guard of a forest beyond. Wildflowers dot the nearest parts of the slope. The right bank is much steeper, rising quickly past a few trees to a steep cliff. Intermediate ranges appear in the hazy distance. (From the painting, 6 December 1998)
Identification: Descriptive title from sale catalog.
In index(es): Title list, Mount Shasta and Shastina

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