| Date: | 1881 |
| Medium: | oil on canvas, lined |
| Size: | 22.5 x 10.5 in (57.2 x 26.7 cm) |
| Inscription: | signed and dated l/r "F Schafer / S.F. 81", in the artist's characteristic block-letter hand |
| Verso: | Said to have been titled, covered by lining. |
| Provenance: | Offered by DeRu's Fine Arts, Bellflower, California, 1990. Sold 17 November 2020 together with its pendant, Indians hunting in Yosemite Valley, for $1875 by John Moran Auctioneers, Inc., Monrovia, California, as part of lot 23 in California and American Fine Art sale #175; to private collection, Lake Oswego, Oregon. |
| Reproductions: | Early California and Western Art Research/Schafer slide #99 (color, 1990) |
| Description: | A creek ripples down over a succession of small falls in the interior of a forest, toward the foreground where it passes through a pool surrounded by bright beige boulders. The trunks of two, dead trees, one beige and one grey, stand above the boulders on the right, while a little farther back another dead tree leans slightly out over the creek. In the background the sides are filled with indistinct forest foliage around the sun-brightened upper center. (From the painting, 21 July 1990.) |
| Note: | This painting and Indians hunting in Yosemite Valley appear to be pendants. |
| Identification: | Descriptive title said to come from a now-covered verso inscription. |
| Other title(s): | [Yosemite Valley] (plaque on frame); [Small waterfall in a Yosemite Valley Landscape] (John Moran Auctioneers, Inc. sale catalog) |
| In index(es): | Title list, Barbizon-style forest interiors, mountain streams through a forest, Yosemite Valley--other views, dated paintings |
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