| Medium: | oil on canvas (lined? See note.) |
| Size: | 30 x 20 in (76 x 51 cm) |
| Inscription: | l/r "F Schafer", in the artist's characteristic block-letter hand, initials conjoined in a monogram |
| Verso: | l/c "Ev. on the Amazone Riv / Sth. America" printed in block lettering but not in the artist's hand, some letter strokes strangely omitted. |
| Provenance: | In private collection, New Jersey; sold 11 April 2005 for $4113 by Bonhams & Butterfields, San Francisco, as lot 92 in sale 13084, "California and American Paintings and Sculpture". Offered in January 2006 by Spanierman Gallery LLC, New York City. Sold 9 November 2006 for $4183 by Heritage Auctions, Inc., Dallas, Texas as lot 25106 in "Fine Art Signature Auction" #638. |
| Reproductions: | Bonhams & Butterfields sale catalog (color); Heritage Auctions, Inc. sale catalog (color). |
| Note: | (1) Although Schafer was familiar with tropical scenery from his presumed travel from New York to San Francisco by way of Panama, there is no evidence that he ever visited Brazil or the Amazon River. This painting may be a composite based on a California river plus his sketches of Central American locales. (2) Although none of the sale catalogs describe the painting as lined, the clean, white appearance of the back, the neatly trimmed edges and folded corners at the edge of the stretcher bars, and what appear to be edges of the original canvas in the verso photograph suggest that it has been lined. If so, the verso inscription may have been transcribed from an the original canvas at the time of lining. (3) Morning on the Amazon River, South America seems to be a morning version, perhaps intended as a pendant. |
| Identification: | Title from the verso inscription with spelling of "Amazone" corrected and abbreviations expanded. The photographs from each of the sales match. |
| In index(es): | Title list, sunset scenes, tropical scenes |
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