| Medium: | oil on canvas |
| Size: | 22 x 42 in (61 x 107 cm) |
| Inscription: | l/r "F Schafer S F" in the artist's characteristic block-letter hand |
| Verso: | said to be titled |
| Provenance: | Sold 13 December 1994 for $3,000 + 15% by Butterfield & Butterfield, San Francisco, as lot 905 in sale 6144D/D08 "American and California Paintings and Sculpture". |
| Reproductions: | 13 December 1994 sale catalog. |
| 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: | 1. 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]. 2. A painting titled "Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe" was offered as lot 146 on page 9 in the catalog of a 17 November 1885 auction in San Francisco but there is not enough information in that catalog to either include or exclude the possibility that it is the same painting. |
| In index(es): | Title list, lake cove scenes, Lake Tahoe and environs |
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Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe in the Sierras