| Date: | undated |
| Medium: | oil on canvas |
| Size: | 30 x 20 in (76 x 51 cm) |
| Inscription: | l/l "Schàfer." |
| Verso: | "The Sentinel/yosemite valley" |
| Provenance: | In private collection, Belmont, California, to 1998; with Bonhams & Butterfields, San Francisco 25 June 1998; with Maxwell Galleries, Ltd., San Francisco. |
| Reproductions: | 25 June 1998 sale catalog 6809, lot 5158 |
| Site: | View east along the Merced River through Yosemite Valley, California, of Sentinel Rock. |
| Description: | Sentinel rock provides an elegant backdrop for a placid river scene. The sky is cloud-filled and the mountains in the distance beyond Sentinel Rock are hazy. At the left edge of the painting, a conifer stand on the shore frames the picture On the right a point covered with brush and wildflowers has one or two small trees. In a further riverbank in the middle distance is an Indian encampment with tepees and two figures. (From the painting, 21 July 1998) |
| Identification: | The photograph in the Bonhams & Butterfields sale catalog is of the painting in the Maxwell Galleries, Ltd.. |
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