Charles A. Fries (1854-1940) The Abandoned Road signed 'C.A. Fries' (lower left), inscribed, titled, and dated 'A Mountain Road / #1472 / One Mile East of Muzzy Grade / May 1931' (on the reverse) oil on canvas 20 x 24in framed 29 x33in Painted in 1931. Footnotes: Provenance The artist. Dorothy Adelaide King, granddaughter of the artist, gift from the above. Literature B.F. Dixon, ed., Too Late: The Picture and the Artist, A Tribute to the Dean, From the Archives of Artist Charles A. Fries and author Addie Davis Fries, His Wife, San Diego, Don Diego's Libreria, 1969, no. 1472, p. 100.