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[photo] Pikes Peak, Rocky Mountains, Colorado
Photo credit: Susan Cowan, courtesy of Uno Langmann Limited, Vancouver, B.C.
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 20 x 30 in (51 x 76 cm)
Inscription: l/r "F. Schafer" in the artist's characteristic block-letter hand
Verso: said to be "Pikes Peak Rocky Mtns. Colorado"
Provenance: With Uno Langmann Limited, Vancouver, B.C., July 2006 and March 2007.
Citations: Personal communication with the dealer, 2006
Note: A painting with the title Pike's Peak, Colorado was offered as lot 46 on page 5 of the catalog of a 17 November 1885 auction in San Francisco, and also as lot 69 in the catalog of a May 1886 exhibition and auction sale in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory (probably the same painting), but there is not enough information in those sources to either include or exclude the possibility that it is this painting.
Identification: Title from verso inscription.
In index(es): Title list, miscellaneous other well-known landmarks

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