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Frederick F. Schafer
Frederick Ferdinand Schafer was born in Braunschweig, German in 1839. An itinerant landscape painter based in California, he painted scenes of Utah in 1886, 1891, and 1893. He died in 1927.
Schafer immigrated to the United States in late 1876. He was a follower of Albert Bierstadt's Hudson River School of painting who achieved a significant reputation in California by the mid-1880s.
After a Storm in the Rocky Mountains (1880) shows Schafer's use of imaginary landscapes. Schafer's work is held in the Seattle Museum, Shasta State Historical Museum, and in the University of California, Berkeley Oakland Museum.
Biography adapted from Artists of Utah.
Frederick Ferdinand Schafer (1839-1927), an itinerant German landscape painter based in California, worked in Utah in 1886, 1891, and 1893, where he may have had a studio in Salt Lake City's Dooly Building during part of the year. An early 1890s Schafer landscape Salt Lake City Morning (oil on canvas, 14 x 22 inches), which features a view from the northwest of the unfinished Salt Lake Temple standing beside the finished Tabernacle, exists today in the L.D.S. Church Collection. As Linda Jones Gibbs wrote: “Although the city is an important part of the scene, the sunlit snowcapped Wasatch Mountains remain the dominant subject.“ (Masterworks,. 6-7) (b. August 16; d. July 17)
Biography curtesy Artists of Utah.
Books
Baird, Joseph Armstrong, Jr. Views of Yosemite: The Last Stance of the Romantic Landscape. Fresno, CA: The Center, 1982.
Coran, James L., and Walter A. Nelson-Rees. If Pictures Could Talk: Stories About California Paintings in Our Collection. Oakland, CA: WIM, 1989.
Davenport, R. J. Davenport's Art Reference & Price Guide. Ventura, CA: Davenport's Art Reference, 2001.
Dawdy, Doris. Artists of the American West A Biographical Dictionary. Chicago, IL: Sage Books, 1985.
Dunbier, Roger, ed. North American Artists: The Artists Bluebook. Scottsdale, AZ: AskART.com, 2000.
Falk, Peter Hastings. Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975. Madison, CT: Sound View Press, 1999.Hughes, Edan Milton. Artists in California, 1786-1940. Sacramento, CA: Crocker Art Museum, 2002.
Falk, Peter Hastings. Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram. Madison, CT: Sound View Press, 1988.
Falk, Peter Hastings. Who Was Who in American Art Artists Active 1898-1947. Madison, CT: Sound View Press, 1985.
Frank S. Schwarz & Son. American Painting. Philadelphia, PA: The Firm, 1989.
Gerdts, William. Art Across America. Vol.3. New York, NY: Abbeville Press, 1990.
Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall. California Art: 450 Years of Painting & Other Media. Los Angeles, CA: Dustin Publications, 1998.
Oakland Museum. Tropical: Scenes/19th Century Painters of California. Santa Barbara, CA: The Museum, 1972.
Olpin, Robert S., William C. Seifrit, Vern G. Swanson. Artists of Utah. Salt Lake City, UT: Gibbs Smith, l999.
Oman, Richard G. and Robert O. Davis. Images of Faith: Art of the Latter-Day Saints. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book Co., 1995.
Orr-Cahill, Christina. The Art of California Selected Works Oakland Museum. Oakland, CA: Chronicle Books, 1984.
Southwest Art. Southwest Art's Red Book Price Guide to Western American Art. Houston, TX: Cowles Enthusiast Media, 1990.
Trenton, Patricia, and Peter H. Hassrick. The Rocky Mountains: A Vision for Artists in the Nineteenth Century. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1983.
Vincent, Stephen. O California! 19th & Early 20th Cen Landscapes. San Francisco, CA: Bedford Arts, 1990.
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