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Frederick Ferdinand Schafer Painting Catalog

Painting record FFSd0033

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[photo] [California landscape 1]
Photo credit: Early California and Western Art Research, 1984
Medium: oil (on canvas?)
Size: 12 x 18 in (30 x 46 cm)
Inscription: l/r "Fr . . . Schafer" (rest not legible in photograph)
Provenance: In private collection, Los Angeles, by 1984; sold by 1987.
Reproductions: Early California and Western Art Research/Schafer slide #71 (color, 1984)
Description: A path runs from the center to the right edge. A large broadleaf tree fills the left half of the painting, while four cows stand under it in a grassy field at the edge of a lighter green grassy flat valley. In the distance are trees, with low hills on the right. The sky is a cloudy blue. The color palette is entirely bright pastels. (From a color photograph.)
Identification: Descriptive title of unknown origin, as found in the Early California and Western Art Research index.
In index(es): Title list, pastoral and rural scenes

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