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[photo] [Landscape with Mount Hood in the distance]
Photo credit: Maxwell Galleries, Ltd., San Francisco
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 20 x 30 in (51 x 76 cm)
Inscription: said to be l/r "Schafer" (not visible in the photographs)
Provenance: Sold 17 February 1988 for $850+10% by Butterfield & Butterfield, San Francisco, as lot 4107 in sale 3910P/P31. Offered in 1989 by Hunter Gallery, Carmel, California. Offered in 1998 by Maxwell Galleries, Ltd., San Francisco.
Reproductions: Butterfield & Butterfield 17/18 February 1988 sale catalog, Hunter Gallery photo (color, 1989), Maxwell Galleries, Ltd. photo (color, undated)
Site: Appears to be Mount Hood, Oregon, viewed from the Northeast across a small unidentified river.
Description: A snowcapped stratovolcano with a small secondary cone on the right stands in the center against a blue-white sky. Below the mountain on the left is a hazy, forested flat ridge. A calm river emerges from the forest in the center and flows to the left front, sweeping in a wide, shallow curve against the right bank, where many small rocks stand both in the river and on the flat bank. A conifer forest stands on the right bank above a beach, with three prominent brown-trunked trees, two of which reach into the sky. A dead tree sprawls at an angle just behind their left, behind a boulder. A plume of smoke from an unseen campfire rises in the distance across the river. (From a color photograph.)
Identification: Descriptive title of unknown origin, as found in the 1988 sale catalog.
In index(es): Title list, Mount Hood

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