Medium: | oil on canvas |
Size: | 30 x 50 in (76 x 127 cm) |
Inscription: | said to be l/r "F. Schafer", visible but not readable in the photograph |
Verso: | none reported |
Provenance: | In "Private Collection, Northern California"; sold 15 March 2009 for $5490 by Bonhams & Butterfields, San Francisco, as lot 5039 in sale 16945. |
Reproductions: | Bonhams & Butterfields 15 Mar 2009 sale catalog. |
Site: | Unidentified, but because the bright mountain on the left seems to include the geologic feature known as Devil's Slide, may be in the Weber Canyon, about 30 miles east of Ogden, Utah. If so, the painting is probably a composite, because below Devil's Slide is the Weber River rather than a lake. |
Note: | (1) If not a composite, the lake may be a wide, slow-moving section of the Weber River looking west. (2) Schafer painted this scene several times from slightly different vantage points. See the list of Wasatch Mountains. |
Identification: | Assigned title based on similarity to other paintings of the same scene that were titled by the artist. |
In index(es): | Title list, Wasatch Mountains |