WALTER ELMER SCHOFIELD | AUGUST AFTERNOON

Property from the Estate of Andrew Hartnagle
WALTER ELMER SCHOFIELD
1867 - 1944
AUGUST AFTERNOON

signed Schofield - and dated - '22 (lower left); also titled August Afternoon (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
26 by 30 inches
(66 by 76.2 cm)

Condition Report:
The work is lined and tacked to moderns stretchers. There are frame abrasions along the extreme outer edges with corresponding chip losses. There is a 5-inch vertical break in the largest rock at far right which has been repaired from the reverse. Under UV: tiny pindots of inpaint along the upper margin in the white sky likely to address thinness in the paint layer.

Provenance:
Grand Central Art Galleries, New York

Stendahl Galleries, Los Angeles

Sold: Christie's, New York, May 25, 1989, lot 309

Acquired by the present owner at the above sale