| Date: | probably undated |
| Medium: | oil on canvas |
| Size: | 20 x 30 in (51 x 76 cm) |
| Inscription: | l/r "F Schafer", fraktur hand |
| Verso: | said to be titled |
| Provenance: | In collection of George Valliere, San Mateo, California, by 1990; to his estate; with Bonhams & Butterfields, San Francisco 12 July 1990; with William J. B. Burger, Historical Americana, Pine Grove, California, February 1999. |
| Reproductions: | 12 July 1990 sale catalog 4325P/P58, lot 2156; Early California and Western Art Research/Schafer slide #103 (color, 1990) |
| Site: | Black Butte (el. 6325 ft.) is located just west of Mount Shasta, California. The view is looking Northeast past Black Butte toward Mount Shasta. |
| Description: | The front half of the scene is a wide, flat, green valley with a stream flowing out of an evergreen forest, past three grazing horses (one white, one brown, one palomino), and winding toward the viewer. On the left beyond the valley, Black Butte rises darkly and abruptly to a great height; beyond the forest two successive ridges, the first beige, the second dark gray, rise gradually to the right. In the distance a snow-capped Mount Shasta, with Shastina on the left, dominates the entire scene. A snag lies in the river. (From a color photograph.) |
| Note: | Mount Shasta [9] is a very similar scene of Black Butte and Mount Shasta viewed from a pastoral valley. |
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