Medium: | oil on canvas |
Size: | 20 x 36 inches (51 x 91 cm.) |
Inscription: | l/r "FSchafer", in the artist's characteristic block printing hand, sloping slightly upward and with initials conjoined in a monogram. |
Verso: | l/c "in the Adorandacks" in black brush on the canvas in the artist's characteristic block printing hand. The canvas immediately to the right of the inscription is covered with a patch that may hide part of the inscription. |
Provenance: | Sold 9 September 2007 for $1800+17% as lot 6415 in sale 456 by Clar's Auction Gallery, Oakland, California. Offered 22 September 2014 and again 28 September 2016 and 29 September 2020 via eBay by "808southseasimports", Springfield, Massachusetts. |
Reproductions: | 9 September 2007 sale catalog (color). |
Description: | Two fishermen standing and sitting beside a river and a woman sitting on the bank in Victorian dress under a parasol. A huge broadleaf tree on the right bank, broadleaf forest elsewhere, a flowering bush in the lower right corner. A patch of blue sky appears in the center with a fluffy white cloud at the bottom. (From a photograph.) |
Identification: | Title from verso inscription, antique spelling preserved. The sale catalog modernized the spelling. |
Other title(s): | In the Adirondacks (Clar's Auction Gallery sale catalog) |
In index(es): | Title list, eastern United States scenes, fishing scenes, mountain streams through a forest |