Medium: | oil on canvas laid on board |
Size: | 30 x 50 in (76 x 127 cm) |
Inscription: | Signed l/r "F Schafer" in the artist's characteristic block-lettering hand. |
Verso: | Back is covered. |
Provenance: | In private collection, British Columbia, by 2003. With Uno Langmann Limited, Vancouver, B.C. by 2013, inventory #j19442. |
Citations: | Personal communications with the owner in 2003 and the dealer in 2020. |
Site: | Unidentified. This is one of several paintings of unidentified mountain scenes. |
Description: | Owner's description: "It is horizontally composed, a scene of an Indian on horseback in the left foreground gazing across a river to a teepee'ed village on the right middle field. Above the village to the right are some clifflike hills with towering (almost Himalayan) mountains (snow-covered) in the far distance." |
Legend: | This is one of three paintings said to "have been in our family for a number of years." |
Identification: | Descriptive title supplied by the dealer. |
In index(es): | Title list, Indian encampments as incidental subjects, unidentified mountain scenes |