Medium: | oil on canvas |
Size: | 30 x 50 in (76 x 127 cm) |
Inscription: | Signed l/r: "F. Schafer", underlined, in the artist's characteristic block-letter hand. |
Verso: | Titled l/c: "Ev. on Mt Hood / from Hood Riv. Oregon" in black brush on the canvas in the artist's characteristic block-letter hand. |
Provenance: | In collection of Albert Daniel Kendall (1874–1957), Troutdale, Oregon, perhaps as early as 1899 (see Legend); by descent in the family in 1957, 1986, and 2015 to private collection, Portland, Oregon, area. |
Citations: | Personal communication with the 2015 owner. |
Site: | View along the Hood River with Mount Hood, Oregon, in the background. |
Note: | A painting with the same title was offered as lot 28 in the catalog of a May 1886 auction in Salt Lake City, Utah, but there is not enough information in that catalog to either include or exclude the possibility that it is the same painting. |
Legend: | According to a family legend, Albert Kendall met the artist in Portland, Oregon, in 1899 and may have purchased this painting directly from him at that time. |
Identification: | Title from the artist's verso inscription. |
In index(es): | Title list, Indian encampments as incidental subjects, Mount Hood |