| Medium: | oil on canvas |
| Size: | 30 x 50 in (75 x 127 cm) |
| Inscription: | said to be l/l "F. Schafer" (not visible in the photograph) |
| Provenance: | Sold 9 June 1983 for $2200 by Butterfield & Butterfield, San Francisco, as lot 2217 in sale 3330P. |
| Reproductions: | Butterfield & Butterfield 9 June 1983 sale catalog; Early California and Western Art Research/Schafer slide #65 (color, 1983) |
| Site: | Great Plains (Montana?) |
| Description: | A dramatically intense moonlit scene with low rolling hills in the background. Several decorated tepees in a camp, with campfires in front; the nearest tepee has a signpost in front. (Appears to be another view, from a viewpoint slightly to the right, of the same camp depicted in [Indian camp in Winter 1].) About eight Indians are seated around the campfire in front of the nearest tent; the campfire illuminates them with a red glow. Two riders on horseback stop to talk to a standing figure at the edge of the group. Another horse and rider head toward a distant tepee. Farther away on the left, there are gatherings and campfires in front of several other tepees. The sky is cloud-filled and dark, the moon is bright yellow and directly ahead, so the horses cast shadows in the direction of the viewer. (From a color photograph.) |
| Note: | See the list of Indians in desert locales for several possibly related paintings. |
| Identification: | Descriptive title of unknown origin, from the 1983 sale catalog. The Early California and Western Art Research index identifies the slide with the 9 June 1983 sale. |
| In index(es): | Title list, Indian encampments as primary subjects, Indians in desert locales, moonlight nocturnes and other scenes showing the moon |
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