| Medium: | oil on canvas |
| Size: | 12 x 20 in (30 x 51 cm) |
| Inscription: | l/r "F Schafer", in the artist's characteristic block-letter hand, underlined |
| Verso: | u/c "83"; l/r "Cypress Point / Monterey."; numerous labels and stickers |
| Provenance: | Offered in 1980 by Frank S. Schwartz and Son, Philadelphia. Offered c. 1987 by WIM Fine Arts, Oakland, California. Sold 4 October 1992 for $3,300 by Butterfield & Butterfield, San Francisco, as lot 28 in "California Paintings" sale 5136D/D03. Sold 11 December 2012 for $2,500 by Bonhams, Los Angeles, as lot 8 in sale 20071. |
| Exhibited: | Schwartz Celebrates 50 Years, 1930–1980, Philadelphia, 1980. |
| Reproductions: | Schwartz Celebrates 50 Years, 1930–1980 exhibition catalog, back cover; American Paintings under $2,000, 1980; WIM Fine Arts photo #4682; Butterfield & Butterfield 4 October 1992 sale catalog; Early California and Western Art Research/Schafer slide #116 (1992, not seen); Bonhams 11 Dec 2012 sale catalog. |
| Citations: | Inventory of American Paintings… record 62400228 |
| Site: | The Pacific Coast, somewhere near Monterey, California, but probably not the place known today as "Cypress Point". |
| Description: | A grove of Monterey Cypress trees lean from the wind in a field of yellow grass on a point above a blue-green ocean inlet. Waves break on the rocks at the end of the point and roll in to a beach at the left. In the right foreground is a sand dune with patches of red-flowered beach bushes. The ocean in the distance is greenish-grey; a sailboat stands against the horizon under a grey cloudy sky, while four or five gulls circle above. (From a color photograph.) |
| In index(es): | Title list, coastal and marine scenes |
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