| Date: | undated |
| Medium: | oil on canvas |
| Size: | 30 x 50 in (76 x 127 cm) |
| Inscription: | l/r "F. Schafer", fraktur hand, underlined |
| Verso: | l/r "Bear Lake in the Wasatch Mts. / Utah", fraktur hand, in black brush. |
| Provenance: | In private collection, Portland, Oregon, in 2001. With Bonhams & Butterfields, San Francisco, 10 December 2003 |
| Reproductions: | 10 December 2003 sale catalog 7479D, lot 6149 |
| Citations: | Vancouver Daily World, 3 September 1891. |
| Site: | Unconfirmed, but apparently a few miles south of Salt Lake City. Based on the painting titles and other legends handed down with the paintings, the lake is called Bear Lake, the large central mountain is called Black Mountain, and the light-colored mountain on the left is called Crystal Mountain. But a search of Utah place names does not turn up any single location associated with all three names. |
| Description: | PRECAT (To be supplied) |
| Note: | Schafer painted this scene several times from slightly different vantage points. See the list of Wasatch Mountains, including Black Mountain, paintings. |
| Identification: | Title from the verso inscription. In 1891 a painting with the title Bear Lake in the Wasatch Mountains, Utah was exhibited in Vancouver, British Columbia, but apart from the fact that this painting emerged not far away in Portland, Oregon, there is no other evidence that they are the same paintings. |
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