| Date: | said to be 1879 |
| Medium: | oil on canvas |
| Size: | 20 x 36 in (51 x 91 cm) |
| Inscription: | l/r, not legible in the photograph |
| Verso: | said to be "Donner Lake", and dated 1879 |
| Provenance: | In private collection, Alameda, California, by 1970 |
| Reproductions: | William K. Dick photo #41 (color, 1970) |
| Description: | Two figures on horseback stand on a flat, grey, rocky promontory looking down over a round, blue lake in the center. Beyond the lake is a low mountain ridge, and above that a high, snow-covered ridge; the sun coming from the left brightens the tops of the snowy peaks along the ridge. On either side of the horsemen are groves of conifers; on each side a few trees are tall enough to reach the sky. The foreground is largely rock, with the trunk of a dead tree angled across the lower right corner. The sky is a cloudy blue. (From a color photograph.) |
| In index(es): | Title list, Lake Tahoe and environs, dated paintings |
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