| Date: | said to be undated |
| Medium: | oil on canvas, lined |
| Size: | 30 x 50.5 in (76 x 128.3 cm) |
| Inscription: | said to be l/l "F. Schaefer" (not legible in the photographs) |
| Verso: | said to be no inscription |
| Provenance: | With Bonhams & Butterfields, San Francisco, 27 September 1985; with Christopher Queen Galleries, Duncans Mills, California; to private collection, Northern California, 22 September 1988. In private collection, Petaluma, California; with Bonhams & Butterfields, San Francisco, 8 August 2005. |
| Reproductions: | 27 September 1985 sale catalog 3580P, lot 3864; Christopher Queen Galleries photograph; 8 August 2008 sale catalog 13221, lot 93 (color). |
| Citations: | Christopher Queen Galleries record 153 |
| Site: | Along the John Muir trail, in the Southern California Sierras. |
| Description: | A range of snow-capped mountains runs across the background, with the lake at the lower right. A brushy slope up the left has a few trees, with a large Jeffrey Pine at the top and one on the left that appears about to topple. A log on the left shore points out across the lake to the right; the line continues in the dark green forest horizon on the far bank. Two large boulders stand near the lake. The sun brightens the valley beyond the lake. The sky is filled with clouds. (From a color photograph.) |
| Note: | The site location and the tree identification are due to Arnold Wallen. |
| Identification: | Descriptive title of unknown origin, as found in the 1985 sale catalog. |
| Other title(s): | Southern Sierra landscape (Christopher Queen Galleries); A Sierra Lake with Snow-capped Peaks Beyond (Bonhams & Butterfields 2005) |
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