| Date: | undated |
| Medium: | oil on canvas |
| Size: | 30 x 20 in (76 x 51 cm) |
| Inscription: | l/r "F. Schafer" underlined, fraktur hand, in red |
| Verso: | "in The Adirondacks", fraktur hand |
| Provenance: | In collection of Dr. & Mrs. Herzl Friedlander, California, by 1977; by gift to the E. B. Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California, in 1977 (public), inventory #1977.36. |
| Reproductions: | Early California and Western Art Research/Schafer slide #50 (color, 1980); museum file photographs, front and verso |
| Description: | A stream emerges in the lower center and flows through a stand of white-trunked birch trees, over a small fall, and under a dead branch toward the viewer's feet. Except for a small patch of white sky in the center, the upper space of the painting is fully occupied with forest foliage and, on the right, a large bushy-topped tree. Two lean across the stream from the left side; much of the white bark is missing from the lower trunk of the nearer one. Red and yellow wild flowers decorate both lower corners. The foreground is in shadow, the center bright, sunny, and cheerful; there is forest clutter and green and yellow brush everywhere. (From a color photograph.) |
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