| Date: | not dated, probably 1880-1886 |
| Medium: | oil on canvas |
| Size: | 31 x 50 in (79 x 127 cm) |
| Inscription: | l/l "FSchafer SF" initials conjoined in a monogram, in the artist's characteristic block-letter hand, underlined |
| Verso: | said to be "A Colorado Scene" |
| Provenance: | In private collection, Northern California, by 1971. |
| Reproductions: | Early California and Western Art Research/Schafer slide #47 (color, 1979); William K. Dick photo #29 (color, 1971) |
| Description: | A mountain landscape with a grey peak at the center; a waterfall falls from a distant hanging valley into a deep valley below at the right; a white bird flies in front of a rocky cliff at the center. The very steep right wall of canyon shows several dead trees. At the lower left corner is a green triangle of wildflower-dotted grass and trees, with three dead tree trunks lying in a clearing, a large white boulder, and several smaller rocks. The sky is mostly cloudy with some blue at the upper left. (From the painting, 19 July 1990.) |
| Note: | A painting with the title Scene in Colorado was offered as lot 13 in the catalog of a July 1885 auction in Victoria, British Columbia, but there is not enough information in that catalog to either include or exclude the possibility that it is this painting. |
| Identification: | The two photographs appear to be of the same painting. The initials "S.F." following the signature suggest that the painting was executed during the period 1880-1886, when Schafer had a studio in San Francisco. |
| Other title(s): | Colorado mountains and waterfall (Early California and Western Art Research index) |
| In index(es): | Title list, unidentified mountain scenes |
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