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[photo] High Peaks in the Rocky Mountains

Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 30 x 20 in (76 x 51 cm)
Inscription: Signed indistinctly l/l: "FSchafer", initials conjoined in a monogram, in the artist's characteristic block-letter hand.
Verso: Titled on the canvas: "High Peak* in the / Rocky Mts" in a black brush that rendered some strokes very lightly. In the sale catalog the word beginning "Peak" is rendered as "Peaks", which is probably the best reading of an ambiguously light letter.
Provenance: In private collection by 2003. Sold 27 May 2018 for $C900 + 20% by Westbridge Fine Art Auction House, Vancouver, British Columbia, as lot 21 in "Canadian & International Art" sale to private collection, Lake Oswego, Oregon.
Reproductions: Westbridge Fine Art Auction House on-line catalog.
Citations: Personal communication with the 2003 owner. Personal communication with the 2021 owner.
Note: This is one of three paintings said by the 2003 owner to "have been in our family for a number of years."
Identification: Title from the verso inscription, choosing "s" for the ambiguous letter.
In index(es): Title list, unidentified mountain scenes

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