| Medium: | oil on canvas |
| Size: | 12 x 20 in (30 x 51 cm) |
| Inscription: | l/r "F Schafer", fraktur hand, underlined |
| Verso: | said to be "Cypress Point, Monterey Bay" |
| Provenance: | With Frank S. Schwartz and Son, Philadelphia, 1980. With WIM Fine Arts, c. 1987. With Bonhams & Butterfields, San Francisco, 4 October 1992. |
| Exhibited: | Schwartz Celebrates 50 Years, 1930-1980, Philadelphia, 1980. |
| Reproductions: | Exhibition catalog, back cover; WIM Fine Arts photo #4682 (color); American Paintings under $2,000, 1980; 4 October 1992 sale catalog 5136D/D03, lot 28. Early California and Western Art Research/Schafer slide #116 (1992, not seen) |
| Citations: | Inventory of American Paintings... record 62400228 |
| Site: | The Pacific Coast, somewhere near Monterey, California, but probably not the place known today as "Cypress Point". |
| Description: | A grove of Monterey Cypress trees lean from the wind in a field of yellow grass on a point above a blue-green ocean inlet. Waves break on the rocks at the end of the point and roll in to a beach at the left. In the right foreground is a sand dune with patches of red-flowered beach bushes. The ocean in the distance is greenish-grey; a sailboat stands against the horizon under a grey cloudy sky, while four or five gulls circle above. (From a color photograph.) |
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