Medium: | oil on canvas |
Size: | 30 x 20 in (76 x 51 cm) |
Inscription: | l/l, "F. Schafer", in the artist's characteristic block-letter hand |
Verso: | l/c, "on Lake Blanche/Wasatch Mts. Utah", black brush |
Provenance: | Sold 31 July 1991 for $1320 by Butterfield & Butterfield, San Francisco, as lot 2001 in sale 4579D. In Springville Museum of Art, Springville, Utah by 2005. |
Reproductions: | Butterfield & Butterfield 31 July 1991 sale catalog, Early California and Western Art Research/Schafer slide #110 (1991), Olpin, Robert S. et al., Painters of the Wasatch Mountains, page 32 (color), Springville Museum of Art web site image 0000002196_03, 2011. |
Site: | Lake Blanche is a body of water about 1000 feet in length, located in the Wasatch Mountains, 25 miles southeast of Salt Lake City. |
Description: | Sundial Peak with a trace of snow near its cap and generally of a pinkish cast stands at the center under grey, cloudy skies. A bright spot (the sun trying to break through?) appears in the sky just to the left of the top of the peak, while a grey forerange completes the background. In the middle distance, a small lake is surrounded by conifers; there is bright green underbrush on the right. The foreground is crossed by a grey path and dotted with pink wildflowers. (From the painting, 28 July 1991.) |
In index(es): | Title list, miscellaneous other well-known landmarks, Wasatch Mountains, paintings currently held in museums and public collections |