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Painting record FFSd0145

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[photo] [The Lone rider]
Photo credit: Nancy Ferreira, Christopher Queen Galleries
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 7 x 14 in (18 x 36 cm)
Inscription: l/r "F Schafer", in the artist's characteristic block-letter hand
Verso: no inscription
Provenance: Sold 27 March 1986 for $400+10% by Butterfield & Butterfield, San Francisco, as lot 4188 in sale 3653P. Sold 27 January 1996 by Christopher Queen Galleries, Duncans Mills, California to private collection, Diablo, California.
Reproductions: Butterfield & Butterfield 27 March 1986 sale catalog.
Citations: Christopher Queen Galleries record 190
Description: A rider dressed in brown and on a brown horse stands on a trail in the center looking over a wide valley on the left through which flows a blue river. A snow-covered peak stands in the center; below it the valley is filled with a blue-green fog. A wooded slope forms a shallow triangle from the lower left corner to well up the right side, with the trunks and lower branches of three trees standing near the right edge, and three more trees framing the scene on the left. The foreground is brown, while the brush behind the trees is reddish. The brushstrokes are mostly broad and uncontrolled. (From the painting, 10 January 1990, at Christopher Queen Galleries.)
Identification: Descriptive title of unknown origin, from the 1986 sale catalog.
Other title(s): Lone rider on the way north to Mt. Shasta (Christopher Queen Galleries)
In index(es): Title list, unidentified mountain scenes, sketches

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