Frederick Ferdinand Schafer Painting Catalog

Unidentified painting record FFSu0410


[no photo] Castle Rock on the Columbia River

Provenance: With George F. Lamson, San Francisco, 23 September 1882. With Easton and Eldridge, Auctioneers, San Francisco, 18 September 1884.
Exhibited: Mechanics' Institute Nineteenth Industrial Exhibition, 1884, page 51.
Citations: San Francisco Evening Bulletin 12 September 1884.
Description: "...exceedingly bright, with its quaint tents and gaily costumed figure, backed by the old gray rock."
Note: The quqoted description is from the San Francisco Evening Bulletin report preceding the 1884 sale.
Identification: Since there are several extant paintings with this title, the two sales listed in the provenance may well be of different paintings.

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