| Medium: | oil on canvas |
| Size: | 20 x 36 in (51 x 76 cm) |
| Inscription: | Signed l/l "FSchafer." in the artist's characteristic block-printing hand, initials conjoined in a monogram. |
| Verso: | Titled l/c "In the Colorado Mts" in the artist's characteristic block-print hand. Some strokes are light or skipped as if the brush were too dry for an ungrounded canvas, making the word "the" speculative. There is also a pencil inscription on the stretcher bar giving the dimension of the bar. |
| Provenance: | Sold 29 October 2020 for $700 + 28% by Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Denver, Colorado, as lot 142 in "Western Paintings and Sculpture" sale 791; to private collection, Lake Oswego, Oregon. |
| Reproductions: | Leslie Hindman Auctioneers sale catalog. |
| Note: | This may be one of the paintings that Schafer sold or gave away as a premium in 1888, when he passed through Denver on his way home from the Art Institute of Chicago exhibition in 1888. |
| Identification: | Title from artist's inscription verso with abbreviation expanded and with the speculative "the". |
| Other title(s): | [Colorado Landscape] (Leslie Hindman Auctioneers sale catalog) |
| In index(es): | Title list, unidentified mountain scenes |
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