Some institutions normally display their Schafer paintings at all times, including The Alameda Museum, The Bancroft Library of the University of California at Berkeley, The Cooper-Molera Adobe, The Craigdarroch Castle Historical Museum Society, The Hoover Institution, and The Shasta State Historic Park.

Full citations including accession numbers, previous holdings that have since been deaccessioned, and the locations of these collections may be found in Museums and other public collections that hold paintings by Schafer or by clicking on the name of a collection below.

Sunset on Mount Shasta from Cape Horn The Alameda Museum	Colquitz Creek near Victoria, British Columbia The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria	Morning in the Yosemite Valley [1] The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley
[Tourist party viewing Yosemite] The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley	[Mount Hood from the Columbia River at Cape Horn] (attributed) The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley	[Old Roscoe on the Truckee River] The Birmingham Museum of Art
View from Beacon Hill, Victoria, British Columbia The British Columbia Visual Records Archive	West coast Indians near Victoria, British Columbia The British Columbia Visual Records Archive	Lassen Peak, Sierra Nevada Mountains, California The California Historical Society
[Indian encampment near Mount Rainier] The California Historical Society	[Rural landscape 2] (attributed) The California Historical Society	[Indians on the warpath] Columbia Museum of Art
In the Sacramento Valley [1] The Cooper-Molera Adobe	Autumn in the Adorondacks [3] The Craigdarroch Castle Historical Museum Society	[The California Alps] The Craigdarroch Castle Historical Museum Society
Donner lake [2] The Craigdarroch Castle Historical Museum Society	Evening on Goose Lake The Craigdarroch Castle Historical Museum Society	Evening on Mount Tamalpais, California [1] The Craigdarroch Castle Historical Museum Society
Morning, Mount Shasta, California The Craigdarroch Castle Historical Museum Society	Mountain of the Holy Cross [1] The Craigdarroch Castle Historical Museum Society	Mount Tacoma, view from The Dalles, Oregon The Craigdarroch Castle Historical Museum Society
[Mountain landscape 7] The Craigdarroch Castle Historical Museum Society	In the Adirondacks [1] Crocker Art Museum	Donner Lake, California [5] Gilcrease Museum
Morning on Mirror Lake, Yosemite Valley, California [1] Gilcrease Museum	The Winter camp Gilcrease Museum	Inquisitive Buffalo Gilcrease Museum
The Yosemite Valley from Artist's Point, California [3] Gilcrease Museum	Morning on Mount Shasta, from Strawberry Valley, California Gilcrease Museum	Buffalo hunting in Montana Gilcrease Museum
The Spires of Yosemite Valley Gilcrease Museum	On the Lookout, Indians of Montana Gilcrease Museum	Glacier in Alaska Juneau-Douglas City Museum
Morning in the Adirondacks [1] Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University	Olympic Mountains, Washington [1] Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University	[Nevada Falls 2] The Hoover Institution
[Mount Baker, Washington] The Hoover Institution	[Landscape near Monterey, California] The Monterey Museum of Art	Moonlight on Pacific coast near Monterey, California [1] The Monterey Museum of Art
Mount Shasta, from the upper Sacramento River [1] The Monterey Museum of Art	Salt Lake City, Utah, Morning The Museum of Church History and Art	Bridal Veil Falls, Yosemite Valley, Early Morning The Oakland Museum of California
Carmelo Bay near Monterey, California The Oakland Museum of California	[Landscape with cows 1] The Oakland Museum of California	[Mount Shasta 2] (attributed) The Oakland Museum of California
On Truckee River, Sierra Nevada Mountains, California [1] The Oakland Museum of California	Sunset in Santa Cruz Mountains, California The Oakland Museum of California	[Indian Encampment 3] Pope County Historical Society
[Landscape on palette] The Shasta State Historic Park	[Yosemite 4] The Shasta State Historic Park	[Scene in Guatemala] The Society of California Pioneers
[Fishing the Merced below Sentinel rock] The Museum of Sonoma County	[Evening, Mount Hood from The Dalles, Oregon] The Museum of Sonoma County	Morning on Lake Tahoe from Tahoe City The Museum of Sonoma County
[Indian encampment in the Wasatch Range, Utah] Springville Museum of Art	On Lake Blanche, Wasatch Mountains, Utah Springville Museum of Art	Morning in Yosemite Valley, California [2] The Yosemite National Park Museum
Three Brothers, Yosemite Valley, California The Yosemite National Park Museum	[Alpine landscape (?) or Western landscape (?)] Fairfield University Art Museum