| Medium: | oil on canvas |
| Size: | 30 x 20 in (76 x 51 cm) |
| Inscription: | Signed l/r: "F. Schafer" in artist's characteristic block-letter hand, with exaggerated downstrokes |
| Verso: | Priced u/r: "50.00" and titled l/c: "…inter Morning", both in the artist's characteristic block-letter hand. The initial letter of the title is obscured by a repair patch, probably "W". |
| Provenance: | In private collection, San Francisco, 1971. Sold 16 March 2014 for $775+20% by Clar's Auction Gallery, Oakland, California as lot 6148; offered 28 March 2014 via eBay by "justgreatpaintings", Orange, California. |
| Reproductions: | William K. Dick photo #112 (color, 1971); Clar's Auction Gallery sale catalog. |
| Description: | A winter landscape executed entirely in shades of grey and brown. A grey cabin with a red chimney, a leanto at the left end and a small outbuilding behind it on the right stand in the lower center, viewed down a snow-covered path lined with tall leafless trees. Amongst the trees are small bits of bright brown foliage. The sun brightens a patch of snow-covered grass in the left foreground; the trunk of a fallen tree lies in the right foreground. The sky gradually changes shade from a light grey near the top to a brightening yellow near the horizon. (From a color photograph.) |
| Note: | The painting depicts a cabin in a broad-leaf forest with no background mountains, suggesting that it might be an eastern scene. |
| In index(es): | Title list, cabins, farmhouses, and similar structures, winter scenes, twenty representative works by the artist |
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