Ralph Albert Blakelock

American, 1847 - 1919

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American artist (1847-1919)

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Ralph Albert Blakelock, Moonlight, 1886/1895, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection), 2014.136.20

Moonlight

Ralph Albert Blakelock · 1886/1895 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2014.136.20

Neat, tended garden rows stretch away from us toward a band of trees in this horizontal landscape painting. Low plants grow across the middle of the scene, and higher plants are staked on poles to the right. A fence runs alongside the garden to the left, and a few structures are tucked among the trees’ bushy canopies. Two white chimneys are outlined against the watery blue sky on the far side of the tree line. The plants are painted with visible dabs of copper brown and ivory white, and the dark trees are highlighted with more white glints. The entire scene is backlit and shadowy, though, making details about the buildings, which might include a shed, gate, and house, hard to make out. Thin white clouds skim across the sky. Traces of a signature in red paint are visible in the lower right corner.
Ralph Albert Blakelock, The Artist's Garden, c. 1879/1889, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1954.4.2

The Artist's Garden

Ralph Albert Blakelock · c. 1879/1889 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1954.4.2

Ralph Albert Blakelock, Clear Creek Canyon, Rocky Mountains, Colorado, c. 1869, pen and brown ink on wove paper mounted to board, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Membership Association Fund), 2015.19.577

Clear Creek Canyon, Rocky Mountains, Colorado

Ralph Albert Blakelock · c. 1869 · pen and brown ink on wove paper mounted to board ·  Accession ID  2015.19.577

Bibliography

1947

  • Goodrich, Lloyd. Ralph Albert Blakelock Centenary Exhibition. Exh. cat. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1947.

1969

  • The Enigma of Ralph A. Blakelock, 1847-1919. Exh. cat. The Art Galleries, University of California, Santa Barbara; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; Phoenix Art Museum; The Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY. Santa Barbara, 1969.

1975

  • Geske, Norman A. Ralph Albert Blakelock, 1847-1919. Exh. cat. Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; New Jersey State Museum, Trenton. Lincoln, 1975.

1989

  • Evans, Dorinda. "Art and Deception: Ralph Blakelock and His Guardian." American Art Journal 19 (No. 1, 1989): 39-50.

1996

  • Kelly, Franklin, with Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Deborah Chotner, and John Davis. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 40-41.