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[photo] [Native American Figures in Yosemite Valley]

Date: 1896
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 30 x 50 in (76 x 127 cm)
Inscription: l/r "F.Schafer / 96." in a somewhat rounded variant of the artist's characteristic block-letter hand, second "f" quite large.
Verso: none
Provenance: In collection of Carmen G. Landry, Sonoma, California by 1960; by descent in 1997 to Girard Landry, Los Angeles, California. Sold 22 March 2016 for $6250 by John Moran Auctioneers, Inc., Monrovia, California, as lot #58 in California & American Art sale to DeRu's Fine Arts, Bellflower, California, which in April 2016 offered it for sale. Gift of the Hilbert Collection in 2021 to the Hilbert Museum of California Art, Orange, California, object 2021.039.
Reproductions: John Moran Auctioneers, Inc. sale catalog, Hilbert Museum of California Art photograph
Site: A view looking East up Yosemite Valley, California, from high on the South side, perhaps at or above Artist's point along the Madera road.
Legend: May have come from a Lake Tahoe, California, estate in 1960.
Identification: Not titled by the artist; the descriptive title is the one assigned by the Hilbert Museum of California Art. This catalog previously assigned the title [Yosemite Valley 16].
Other title(s): [Yosemite Valley 16]
In index(es): Title list, Yosemite Valley--classic view, dated paintings

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