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circa 1880-189016 1/8 x 24 1/16 in. (41 x 61.1 cm)
Ralph Albert Blakelock
United States (New York, NY, 1847 - 1919, Elizabethtown, NY)
Object Type:
Painting
Medium and Support:
Oil on canvas
Credit Line:
Marion Stratton Gould Fund
Accession Number:
1974.4
Location: Currently on view
This brooding, moody canvas was created by one of the most haunted souls in the history of American art. Ralph Blakelock, a man diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic and placed in a sanitarium for fifteen years, painted some of the most mysterious, expressive and poetic paintings in 19th century America. Indeed, his interest in and exploration of the unknown and the expressive were deeply admired by such radical 20th century abstract painters as Willem deKooning, Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline....
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Attribution
No. 714 in the Nebraska Blakelock Inventory at the University of Nebraska.
Marks
Artist's signature, lower right: R. A. Blakelock Inscription, verso: N 10 sold to W. Watrous, and H. W. Watrous R. A. Blakelock
Provenance
Purchased from the artist by Harry Willson Watrous, New York; purchased by Vose Galleries of Boston, MA; purchased from them by the Gallery in 1974
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Golden Day, Silver Night: Perceptions of Nature in American Art 1850-1910 Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art 2/3/1982 - 3/20/1983
Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Article Scope: Entry and reproduction. Gwendolyn Owens and John Peters-Campbell. Golden Day, Silver Night: Perceptions of Nature in American Art 1850-1910. Ithaca, NY: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, 1982.
- Article Author: Owens, Gwendolyn. Article Title: Golden Day/Silver Night. Article Scope: Article. Cornell Alumni News. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Volume Number: 85, Issue Number: 3. Issue Date: October 1982. Page Number: 20
- Warren J. Adelson. Ralph Albert Blakelock, 1849-1919. New York, New York: M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., 1973.
- Article Scope: Entry. Norman A. Geske. Ralph Albert Blakelock, 1847-1919. Nebraska: Nebraska Art Association, 1974. Issue Date: 1975.
- Memorial Art Gallery. ARTiculate. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2000--.
- Article Author: Daiss, Lili. Article Title: Untitled poem. Article Scope: Poetry. Community Voices in the Gallery: a Collection of Writings by Members of our Community Inspired by Works of Art at the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2009. Page Number: 17
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Blakelock Inventory
University of Nebraska inventory of Blakelock paintings