| Date: | undated |
| Medium: | oil on canvas, lined |
| Size: | 30 x 50 in (76 x 127 cm) approx |
| Inscription: | l/r "F. Schafer", fraktur hand, underlined, in red |
| Verso: | n.v. (lined) |
| Provenance: | With Sunbird Gallery, Los Altos, California, 1989. |
| Site: | Unconfirmed, but apparently a few miles south of Salt Lake City. Based on the painting titles and other legends handed down with the paintings, the lake is called Bear Lake, the large central mountain is called Black Mountain, and the light-colored mountain on the left is called Crystal Mountain. But a search of Utah place names does not turn up any single location associated with all three names. |
| Description: | A charcoal-colored, massive mountain stands in the center against a backdrop consisting of a range of lower snow-covered mountains. On the left is a bright, light, lower, treeless mountain and a lake. A path on the right side of the lake leads past two boulders and a snag leaning across the lake. Farther away on the right the forest floor is a bright, light, green. On the far shore of the lake is a tent with three figures huddled around a campfire from which smoke rises above and to the left. (From the painting, October 1989.) |
| Note: | See the list of Wasatch Mountains, including Black Mountain, paintings for other paintings of this same scene from slightly different vantage points. |
| Identification: | Assigned title, based on three other paintings of the same scene that were titled by the artist. The alternate title is of unknown origin, perhaps from an unmentioned verso inscription, as listed by the Sunbird Gallery in 1989. |
| Other title(s): | [Black Mountain] |
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[Bear Lake in the Wasatch Mountains, Utah 5]