The following description has been prepared entirely by the current owner, Roberts S. Fastov, Esq., and, at the collector’s request, has not been edited by Sloans & Kenyon

Note 1): Schram was a prominent member of the Landscape Club of Washington, D.C. of which, August H. O. Rolle was one of the founders and long time President in the teens and twenties of the 20^th Century. Schram was one of the few members, and quite possibly the only other member, of the Landscape Club, who followed Rolle’s lead and adopted a American impressionist landscape painting style that used the plein air method of sketching. Most of the other members of the Landscape Club members were trained in the realistic school and as engravers and print makers. A significant number of these other members were attracted to and came to Washington, D.C. to work for the US. Government. Thus, they worked as professional artists as illustrators and engravers for the U.S. Government entities like the U.S. Mint and the Department of Interior and carried over their professional artistic predilections to their landscape painting efforts as members of the Landscape Club. Certainly, Schram manifests in this painting and the next two lots a typical soft multi-hued soft pastel coloring and a relatively fluid brush stroke and technique that was typical of and equal to many of the other classical American impressionist landscape painters of the 1920’s. Schram’s work remains at this time largely forgotten, underappreciated and undervalued. Hopefully, these offerings will start revivifying Schram’s career and appropriately increase the value of his paintings.