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Frederick Ferdinand Schafer Painting Catalog

Image index of sketches

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Several small- and medium-size, roughly-finished oil and watercolor paintings apparently signed by Schafer are known. In contrast with the larger studio paintings, some of them have a uniform illumination and lack a central focus. These paintings seem to be sketches, perhaps in some cases made in the field. Most of them bear a signature consisting of block-printed letters but the letters are composed with much more rounded strokes than in the signatures found on the studio paintings. These differences lead to an attribution concern: any individual sketch may be

by Schafer and signed by him
by Schafer and signed by his son Otto
by Schafer and signed by someone else
by his son Otto but signed to appear they are by Schafer
by Schafer's "copycat" (see "A copycat and a sidearm" in Legends and myths about Schafer)
by someone else seeking to cash in on Schafer's work

Thus whether each of these paintings is an authentic work by Schafer is open to question.

There is also a 32-page sketchbook and a separate index of those sketchbook sketches.

Olympic Mountains, British Columbia	[Mount Shasta from Castle Lake 1]	[Mount Shasta landscape near Castle Lake 1]
[Mountain landscape 9 (Mount Shasta?)]	On the Upper Sacramento River	[Sierra Nevada 1]
[The Lone rider]	[High Sierra scene with Indians]	[Bridal Veil Fall, Yosemite Valley 7]
Morning in the Yosemite Valley [1]	[Indian encampment below Mount Hood 1]	[Homestead at Sunset] (sketch)
On the Columbia River	[Horse and rider in panoramic river landscape, Mount Shasta in distance]	[California mountain landscape]
[Mountain landscape 5]	Yosemite Valley, California [17]	[California mountain valley]
Mount Hood from the Dalles, Oregon [4]	[Morning sail]	[Indian Encampment 1]
Carmel Bay near Monterey, California	[Indian Encampment 2]	[Nevada Falls 3]
[Setting sun]	Shepherds Pass	[Mountain landscape 10]
[River landscape with cows] (sketch)	[Snow-capped mountain scene]	[California landscape 3]
[Bridalveil Fall, Yosemite Valley]	[Mount Shasta from Castle Lake 2]	[Mount Shasta landscape near Castle Lake 2]
[In the California Sierras]	[Grand Canyon, Arizona]	[Landscape with shepherd and flock]
[Mount Shasta, California 26]	[Midway Point, Monterey] (sketch)	Carmelo Bay, Monterey, California (sketch)
[Indian encampment, Mount Hood] (sketch)	[Path through the redwoods] (sketch)	[Yosemite Valley] (sketch 1)
[Yosemite Valley] (sketch 2, attributed)	[Yosemite Valley] (sketch 3)	[Yosemite Valley] (sketch 4)
Sentinel Dome, Yosemite (sketch, attributed)	[Mount Shasta, California] (sketch 1)	[Mount Shasta, California] (sketch 2, attributed)
[Mount Shasta, California] (sketch 3)	[Landscape with stream] (sketch)	[Mountain scene--Mount Rainier?] (sketch)
[Cattle by the river's edge] (sketch)	[Pastoral] (sketch)	[Mountain landscape with three trees] (sketch)
[Woodland Pond] (sketch)	[Farm House] (sketch)	[Mountain Landscape] (sketch)