| Medium: | oil on canvas |
| Size: | 20 x 36 (51 x 91 cm) |
| Inscription: | l/l "F. Schäfer", in the artist's characteristic block-letter hand |
| Verso: | said to be "$100/Mount Baker from near Victoria B.C." in artist's hand; "Morning on Mount Baker near Victoria" in pencil on the stretcher. |
| Provenance: | With Braarud Fine Art, LaConner, Washington, 1985; to private collection, Seattle. |
| Exhibited: | The Regional Painters of Puget Sound, 1870–1920, Seattle, 1986-87 |
| Reproductions: | 1986 exhibition brochure |
| Citations: | Spring 1985 Braarud Fine Art gallery list. Inventory of American Paintings… record 56460059 |
| Site: | When viewed from Victoria, Mount Baker is about half the size depicted, and its profile is somewhat different. See View from Beacon Hill, Victoria, British Columbia for a painting with a substantially accurate, though still exaggerated, profile. |
| Description: | "…evergreen trees framing a placid lake and Mt. Baker dominating the skyline." (From the gallery list.) The stratovolcano is completely enveloped with snow, silhouetted against a cloudless blue sky. The view is up a valley with several successively more indistinct ranges of mountains on both sides. Just beyond the lake the sun, off the canvas to the left, brightens the lower hillside beyond a row of evergreen trees. The foreground is a rubble-strewn clearing, with evergreen trees and boulders on both sides; snags lie across boulders to the right and left of center. (From a color photograph.) |
| In index(es): | Title list, miscellaneous other well-known landmarks, Pacific northwest coast and Victoria, British Columbia |
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