Frederick Ferdinand Schafer Painting Catalog

Painting record FFSd0655


[photo] Mount Shasta, California

Date: said to be 1880
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 30 x 50 in (76 x 127 cm)
Inscription: said to be signed by Thomas Hill and dated 1880
Verso: said to be titled
Reproductions: William K. Dick photo #106 (monochrome, undated)
Citations: William K. Dick notes, page 63
Attribution: The style is that of Schafer except for the large number of foreground boulders, which are strikingly unusual.
Description: A snow-capped stratovolcano with a single peak stands in the center in front of a river valley. The foreground is lined with large boulders; the trunk of a dead tree lies across one of them pointing upward to the right of the mountain. A grove of conifers on the left includes two that stand taller than the peak itself. (From a monochrome photograph.)
Identification: William K. Dick's notes consist of a xerographic copy of an unidentified catalog page with the heading "Western Americana"; figure 44 is a reproduction of this painting. The photograph is of that reproduction.

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