Walter Elmer Schofield (American, 1867–1944) By the Lake (Most Likely Tujunga, California)

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• Lot Description
  Walter Elmer Schofield (American, 1867–1944) By the Lake (Most Likely Tujunga, California)

  Signed 'Schofield' bottom left, oil on panel
  20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61cm)
  Executed circa 1934.

  
  
  

  Provenance

  Collection of George Turner Marsh, San Francisco, California.

  By descent in the Marsh family.

  Private Collection, Northern California.

  
  
  Footnote:

  Note

  The present work dates from Schofield's extended trip out-west in the mid-1930s. Travelling through California and Arizona, the artist was in search of new subject matters that would contrast from his winter scenes set along the Delaware River, his spring scenes from the Cornish coast and his summer scenes in Maine. In California specifically, the artist made a series of paintings of Tujunga Canyon and the Grand Tujunga ranch, just northeast of Los Angeles. Unexpectedly, the artist felt attracted to the desert landscape and said: "There is no doubt in my mind that the State of California and particularly Southern California is a perfect paradise for the out-of-doors painters. Coupled with the wonderful climate, there is a great divesity of physical features." The present work aligns perfectly with the other body of work the artist produced in the area, and in fact relies on the same contrast between yellows and blues, earthy tones and lighter hues, to suggest the chromatic reality of life out-west: an immaculate blue sky overhanging the most golden earth.

  
  
  Condition report:

  Frame: 25 x 29 x 1 1/2 in.

  In overall good condition, with bright colors. We notice painting's contractons on the white boat (to the side) as well as cracks within the panel at upper right in the sky (very faint, minor). Examination under UV light reveals minor restoration above and to the right of the boat (in the water) as well as at upper center (cloud, sky and in the dip where the two hills meet) as well as at upper right (in the sky, through the branches, within the aforementioned cracks). The upper left corner of the painting fluoresces but this is due to the panel being bare (as part of the artist's working method) and not a sign of restoration. The main element of restoration can be found at bottom right, to the right of the boat: abraded ring that has been touched up. See specialist's pictures for more details.

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