| Medium: | oil on canvas |
| Size: | 30 x 50 in (76 x 127 cm) |
| Inscription: | l/r "F Schafer", fraktur hand |
| Provenance: | With Bonhams & Butterfields, San Francisco, August 1972. With WIM Fine Arts, Oakland, California, in 1974. In private collection, Sacramento, California, 1990. |
| Reproductions: | William K. Dick photo #44 (color, 1972); WIM Fine Arts photo #40; Inventory of American Paintings... record 71060521, S2.96 LC10/2 |
| Site: | The Three Sisters Mountain range in Western Oregon. |
| Description: | Three pyramid-shaped, pinkish, snow-covered mountains stand along the skyline, which is completed at the right with a group of four conifer trees, a single conifer, and a brownish-grey cliff. Two (perhaps three) fog-covered ridges stand below the mountains, and in front of them stands a grove of green conifers beside a lake. In the right foreground the slope is littered with boulders and trunks of several dead trees; wildflowers grow in the grass. (From the photographs.) |
| Identification: | Descriptive title of unknown origin, as appearing in the 1972 sale catalog. A note on the back of the photograph by William K. Dick describes the Bonhams & Butterfields sale. The Inventory of American Paintings listing, which uses the title The Three Sisters (Mountains, Deschutes River, Oregon) identifies as its informants Nelson-Rees and Coran, proprietors of WIM Fine Arts. |
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