Moonlight

1886/1895

Ralph Albert Blakelock

Painter, American, 1847 - 1919

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Artwork overview


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Purchased from the artist by Harry W. Watrous [1857-1940], New York; purchased 1896 by William T. Evans [1843-1918], New York; purchased 1913 with Evans collection by William A. Clark [1839-1925]; bequest 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

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Exhibition History

1896

  • Seventy-first Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, 30- March - 16 May 1896, no. 129.

  • Saint Louis Exposition and Music Hall Association, 9 September - 25 October 1896, no. 33.

1897

  • Possibly Opening Exhibition, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, June 1897, no. 353.

1898

  • Possibly American Paintings from the Collection of William T. Evans, Frederick Loeser & Co., Brooklyn, May 1898, no cat.

1899

  • Possibly Exhibition of American Landscapes and Marines, The Lotos Club, New York, 25 March - April 1899, no. 1.

1901

  • Exhibition of Fine Arts, Pan American Exposition, Buffalo, 1 May - 1 November 1901, no. 420.

  • Exhibition of Paintings Selected from the Pan-American Exposition, The Lotos Club, New York, 28 December - January 1902, no. 3.

1905

  • Possibly Nashville, October 1905.

1906

  • Exhibition of Paintings from the Collection of William T. Evans, Esq., The Lotos Club, New York, 31 March - April 1906, no. 1.

1907

  • First Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Contemporary American Artists, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 7 February - 9 March 1907, no. 95.

1909

  • Exhibition of American Paintings Loaned by Members of the Club, The Lotos Club, New York, 22 April - 2 May 1909, no. 2.

1910

  • Ausstellung Amerikanischer Kunst, Königliche Akademie der Künste, Berlin, March-April 1910, no. 189.

  • Exhibition of American Paintings from the Collection of Mr. William T. Evans of Montclair, NJ, Art Gallery of the Free Public Library, Newark Museum Association, 7 December 1910 - 15 January 1911, no. 2.

1911

  • American Paintings, The Engineer's Club, New York, 1-6 April 1911, no. 3.

1912

  • Exhibition of Paintings of the Romantic Movement by Artists of the French, Dutch, English and American Schools, The Lotos Club, New York, 31 January - 6 February 1912,. no. 1.

  • Exhibition of Paintings from the Collection of Mr. William T. Evans, The Lotos Club, New York, December 1912, no. 2.

1913

  • Exhibition of Paintings from the Collection of Mr. William T. Evans, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, 15 January - 12 February 1913, no. 2.

  • William T. Evans Collection, American Art Galleries, New York, 31 March - 2 April 1913, no. 192.

1916

  • Loan Exhibition of Paintings by R.A. Blacklock, Henry Reinhardt Galleries, New York, 3 - 15 April 1916, no. 9.

1957

  • Twenty-fifth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Toledo Museum of Art, 1957, no. 25.

1959

  • The American Muse: Parallel Trends in Literature and Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959, no. 68.

1966

  • Past and Present: 250 Years of American Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966, unpublished checklist.

1971

  • Wilderness, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 9 October-14 November 1971, no. 27 (organized by the National Endowment for the Arts).

1975

  • Ralph Albert Blakelock (1847-1919). Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, 1975, no. 57.

1978

  • The William A. Clark Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1978, unnumbered catalogue.

1980

  • La Pintura de los Estados Unidos de Museos de la Ciudad de Washington, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, 1980-1981, no. 30, as Claro de Luna.

1998

  • The Forty-Fifth Biennial: The Corcoran Collects, 1907–1998, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 17 July - 29 September 1998, unnumbered catalogue.

2001

  • Antiquities to Impressionism: The William A. Clark Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002, no checklist.

2005

  • Encouraging American Genius: Master Paintings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte; John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, 2005-2007, checklist no. 54.

2008

  • The Unknown Blakelock, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; National Academy of Museum and School of Fine Arts, New York, 2008-2009, unnumbered checklist.

2013

  • American Journeys: Visions of Place, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 21 September 2013-28 September 2014, unpublished checklist.

Bibliography

2011

  • Cash, Sarah. "Ralph Albert Blakelock, Moonlight."In Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Edited by Sarah Cash. Washington, 2011: 168-169, 272-273. repro.

Wikidata ID

Q46631379


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