| Medium: | oil on canvas |
| Size: | 22 x 42 in (61 x 107 cm) |
| Inscription: | l/r "F Schafer S F" fraktur hand |
| Verso: | said to be titled |
| Provenance: | With Bonhams & Butterfields, San Francisco, 13 December 1994 |
| Reproductions: | 13 December 1994 sale catalog 6144D/D08, lot 905 |
| Site: | A view south into Emerald Bay, near the southwest corner of Lake Tahoe. |
| Description: | The calm lake is to the left. The foreground shore is a very shallow slope cluttered with downed snags, behind which stands a grove of conifers including several standing snags. Behind the grove a dark ridge climbs steeply to the right with a lighter ridge at the right edge. Several of the conifers are tall enough to extend above the ridge and be silhouetted against the sky. Across the lake a low conifer forest stands at the edge of the water, behind which is a very gentle forested valley which leads abruptly to the base of a large snow-capped mountain range, which dominates the center of the scene. (From a monochrome photograph.) |
| Note: | The scene and the composition are very similar to those of Morning on Lake Tahoe from Tahoe City and Morning on Lake Tahoe, California [2]. |
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Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe in the Sierras