| Date: | said to be 1890 |
| Medium: | oil on canvas |
| Size: | 22 x 36 in (61 x 91 cm) |
| Inscription: | l/r "F Schafer" |
| Verso: | said to be "Sunset on Three Sisters, Oregon" and dated 1890 |
| Provenance: | With Unidentified auctioneer, c. 1935; To private collection, Walnut Creek, California, in 1935. |
| Reproductions: | William K. Dick photo #40 (color, 1972) |
| Site: | The Three Sisters mountains, Oregon, viewed across a river. |
| Description: | Two figures (fishing?), one standing and the other sitting on the right bank of a river, look across at an encampment in a green clearing on the left bank. The snow-covered Three Sisters stand in the background against a bright blue sky; wisps of clouds, the snowcaps, the tops of several intermediate ridges, and a reddish cliff that stands above the left bank are bathed coral by the sun setting off the canvas to the right. Behind the onlookers is a large white rock with a fallen tree trunk suspended on its rear flank; farther up the slope on the right three tall conifers reach above a high cliff in the background to the sky. (From a color photograph.) |
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