| Date: | undated |
| Medium: | oil on canvas |
| Size: | 30 x 20 in (76 x 51 cm) |
| Inscription: | l/r "F. Schàfer", sweeeping underline, fraktur hand, umlaut ambiguous, may be a grave accent. |
| Verso: | l/r "Morning in the Redwoods/California." |
| Provenance: | private collection, San Francisco, c. 1890, by descent in the family c. 1925, again in 1950, and again in 1987, to private collection, Livermore, California. |
| Description: | A bearded man wearing a red shirt sits on a chair in front of a small log cabin in a clearing surrounded by tall redwood trees under a bright blue sky. Boulders lie along a stream, which is bridged by a plank, on the lower right. Just behind the cabin is a small broadleaf tree. A clothesline runs from the cabin to the nearest tree on the right. (From a color photograph.) |
| Note: | A painting with the title Morning in the Redwoods appeared in the Mechanics' Institute Nineteenth Industrial Exhibition in August 1884, and was later advertised in the Alameda Encinal of 10 September 1884 to be sold at auction by Easton and Eldridge, Auctioneers on 18 September 1884, but the only information in the exhibition listing and the auction advertisement is the title, not enough to allow confident identification with this painting. |
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