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[no photo] [The Three Sisters, Oregon 5]

Medium: oil on canvas
Size: approx 41 x 69 inches (104 x 175 cm)
Inscription: l/r F Schäfer, in the artist's characteristic block-letter hand, underlined, umlaut resembles a circumflex.
Provenance: With Le Meitour Fine Arts, Portland, 1995; To collection of the Arlington Club, Portland, 1995.
Description: The sky is very dark to the left, lighter to the right, behind the snow-covered Three Sisters Mountains. Two dead trees stand at the right, the smaller one leaning. A river flows from the center to the front left. On the other side of the river stand two tepees with smoke visible from a campfire. (From the painting, 26 July 1996.)
Note: The painting may have come from the Paramount Theatre.
In index(es): Title list, Indian encampments as incidental subjects, the Three Sisters, Oregon

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