| Medium: | oil on canvas |
| Size: | 20 x 30 in |
| Inscription: | said to be unsigned |
| Verso: | said to be "Sunrise on Merced River" |
| Provenance: | In collection of Milo Arnett Baker (1868-1953) and Jean Mabry Baker (1872-1943), Los Angeles, California by 1939; sold ca 1939 to collection of Salvador Garcia Morales, Sr (1903–1969) and Amalia Lia Romero Morales (1902–1963); by descent in the family by 1969 to collection of Salvador Garcia Morales, Jr (1932–2023) and Betty Cecile Giroux Morales (1936–2017), Los Angeles, California; on loan ca 2012–2023 to The Jonathan Club Art Collection, Los Angeles; by descent in the family in 2023 to private collection, Nipomo, California (See Note). |
| Reproductions: | Website of Jonathan Art Foundation (no longer on-line as of Oct 2025) |
| Attribution: | Being unsigned, attribution must be based on other aspects of the painting. Based on the subject matter, composition, style, illumination, and palette as well as the general appearance in the available low-resolution photograph, the painting is likely by Schafer. The reported verso title, if found to have been applied by the artist, could provide additional confirmation. |
| Site: | Appears to be a view of the Three Brothers, a rock formation in Yosemite Valley, California, as seen across the Merced River. |
| Note: | Said to have been one of a batch of ten Schafer paintings purchased circa 1939 by Amalia R. Morales (1906-1963) from Jean Mabry Baker, second wife of Milo Arnett Baker (1868-1953) at the dismantling of the Baker house at 426 N. Broadway in Los Angeles. The ten paintings were later distributed among Morales descendants. Having ten Schafer paintings in a single collection in Los Angeles in the 1930s suggests that they may have been acquired at one or more of the all-Schafer auction sales held in Los Angeles in 1886, 1887, 1894, or 1897. Mr. Baker could have acquired the paintings at either or both of the two later auctions, or inherited them together with the house at the passing of his father, Milo Stannard Baker (1828-1894). |
| Identification: | Title from reported verso inscription. |
| In index(es): | Title list, Yosemite Valley--other views |
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