| Medium: | Oil on canvas, laid to canvas. |
| Size: | 20 x 36 in (51 x 91 cm) |
| Inscription: | Appears to be signed l/l "F. Schafer". The available photograph is not sufficiently legible to identify hand. |
| Verso: | Said to be no inscription. |
| Provenance: | Sold December 1970 for $210 by Butterfield & Butterfield, San Francisco; offered in 1970 by Sunshine Antiques, Saratoga, California. Sold 16 January 2000 for $2650 via eBay, Ben Lomond, California, to collection of Steven Harrison and John D. Ibson, Claremont, California. |
| Reproductions: | William K. Dick photo #60 (color, 1971) |
| Citations: | eBay item #239449087. |
| Site: | Unidentified. The background mountain might be Mt. Tamalpais, in Marin County, California. |
| Description: | A dirt road leads past a birch tree whose bright white trunk dominates the left foreground above a grassy wildflower-strewn slope; behind the tree the forest is brown. The road continues through a grassy clearing dotted with wildflowers, past two boulders on the left, over a small rise, then over a second more distant rise on which stand three cows, silhouetted against a wide, green river valley below. Beyond the valley stands a greyish-brown low mountain range under a cloudy sky. The right foreground corner is filled with foliage from another, smaller tree. (From a color photograph.) |
| Note: | The painting is said to have been cleaned and laid to canvas circa 1980. |
| Identification: | Assigned, descriptive title. The provenance comes from a note on the back of the photograph. |
| In index(es): | Title list, Mount Tamalpais, pastoral and rural scenes |
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