| Date: | said to be undated |
| Medium: | oil on canvas |
| Size: | 12 x 10 in (30 x 25 cm) |
| Inscription: | l/r "F Schafer", in the artist's characteristic block-letter hand |
| Verso: | said to be "Mt Hood, Ore." |
| Provenance: | Sold ca 1971 by Garzoli Gallery, San Francisco to private collection, San Francisco; offered in 1983 by Carlson Gallery, San Francisco; sold 20 October 1983 for $450+10% by Butterfield & Butterfield, San Francisco, as lot 1187 in sale 3372P to Braarud Fine Art, LaConner, Washington; sold after 1985 for $1500 to private collection, Seattle, Washington. |
| Reproductions: | William K. Dick photo #134 (color, 1971) |
| Citations: | Butterfield & Butterfield 20 October 1983 sale catalog. Spring, 1985, Braarud Fine Art gallery list. Inventory of American Paintings… record 67530235. |
| Site: | Mount Hood, Oregon, viewed from the Northeast, along the Columbia River. |
| Description: | Snow-covered Mount Hood stands majestically in the center above several indistinctly seen, multicolored ranges of foothills, a steep brownish-grey bluff to the left, and a sharply sloped brown hillside immediately on the right. A large river flows from the lower left corner up through the center of the painting, loosely reflecting the blue sky and a forest that covers the far bank. On the near bank two conifers stand near the water's edge, while a small grove of trees stands higher up the slope, reaching into the sky. Above them a rocky cliff climbs high up the right edge; below them the trunk of a dead tree lies sprawled down the steep slope. The sky is hazy white with distinct white clouds just above the mountain peak. (From a color photograph.) "A rocky cliff, trees and green brushy slope angles diagnonally in the right foregound, a river (Columbia?, Hood?) in middle ground and the mountain centered over all. A few clouds in the sky." (From the gallery list.) |
| Identification: | Title from the artist's verso inscription. The identification with the Carlson offering is confirmed by William K. Dick; the identification with the Butterfield & Butterfield sale is confirmed by Braarud Fine Art. |
| In index(es): | Title list, Columbia River scenes, Mount Hood |
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