| Medium: | oil on canvas |
| Size: | 30 x 50 in (76 x 127 cm) |
| Inscription: | l/l "F Schafer", fraktur hand, underlined |
| Verso: | "Morning on Silver Lake/California" in black brush on the canvas. |
| Provenance: | With O'Gallerie Inc., Portland, 23 January 1991. To private collection, Portland, Oregon, by 1999. |
| Reproductions: | 23 January 1991 sale broadside, lot 748 |
| Site: | Silver Lake is a small body of water a few miles east of Yosemite Valley, California |
| Description: | Under a grey, cloudy sky a short, bushy tree stands on the left amidst several boulders, of which several more stand in the shallows of a lake. A snag with several branches hangs across two boulders just above the water. Wildflowers dot the grassy shore under the tree. In the distance more forest is seem dimly across the lake. (From a color photograph.) |
| Note: | On 23 September 1882, a painting with the title Morning on Silver Lake was sold at auction in San Francisco; it might be the same painting. This painting may also bear some relation to Evening on Silver Lake, California |
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