| Medium: | oil on canvas, lined |
| Size: | 30 x 50 in (76 x 127 cm) |
| Inscription: | l/l "F Schaefer" in the artist's characteristic block-letter hand, partly underlined. |
| Verso: | "Mount Shasta, Cal." in the artist's characteristic block-letter hand |
| Provenance: | To private collection, Taylor, Texas, 1965; with Bent Gallery and Museum, Taos, New Mexico, January 2000; by descent to private collection, Austin, Texas, November 2003. |
| Reproductions: | William K. Dick photo #6 (color, 1972) |
| Site: | A morning view of Mount Shasta from the south, probably near the town of Dunsmuir. Shastina is on the left. |
| Description: | Shastina is almost as high and massive as Shasta, both being lightly snow-covered as if it were late summer. The sky is hazy and cloudy, and the mountains, viewed from a wide valley, are obscured by haze. The lower left triangle is a mountainside with two large boulders surrounded by wildflowers in the foreground. Two conifers and a snag are silhouetted against the sky, with a forest in the middle distance, and background rocky cliffs that on the very left extend higher than the mountain peaks. On the flat valley floor near a river or small pond is an Indian encampment with four tepees and the smoke from a campfire. Just to the right of the encampment are several tall conifers. (From a color photograph.) |
| Note: | This painting is one of the few signed (or reported to be signed) with the spelling "Schaefer". The painting was lined in 1987 by Trade Picture Services Limited of London. |
| In index(es): | Title list, Indian encampments as incidental subjects, Mount Shasta and Shastina |
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