| Date: | said to be 1882 |
| Medium: | oil on canvas |
| Size: | 14 x 24 in (36 x 61 cm) |
| Inscription: | l/r "F. Schafer" underlined, fraktur hand |
| Provenance: | In private collection, Mission Diego, California by 1975. |
| Reproductions: | Inventory of American Paintings... record 71030185, S2.96 LC10/3 |
| Description: | A deep blue creek emerges near the center, flowing gently through a flat, sandy valley first toward the right, then the left, then back toward the right, passing a small island before leaving at the front center. Two men stand and sit in a canoe on the bright, sunny bank at the center behind a shadowed foreground. High brush and low trees stand on the bank at the right, while a more distant grove of broadleaf trees stands on the left. In the back a brown hill precedes a dusty brown low mountain which gently slopes down from a rounded peak at the center. The sky is hazy blue with many clouds. Dead trees stand on both the right and the left. (From a color photograph.) |
| Identification: | Descriptive title of unknown origin, from the Inventory of American Paintings record. The unusual name "Withe" comes from the original hand-written report to the Inventory. It is possible that it is a typographical error for "White". |
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