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Blood Moon
5⅜ x 9⅜ inches
Signed indistinctly lower left
Provenance
Private collection, New York
Related Works
Moonlight, 1880s, oil on canvas, 22 x 27 inches, NBI-304-II; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Nebraska Art Association Collection, Lincoln, Nebraska
Moonlight, 1885-93, oil on canvas, 16 x 24 inches; Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Sunset, ca. 1879-1883, oil on canvas, 27¼ x 37 inches; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee
Note
Blakelock scholar Norman Geske observed that “the moonlight landscape is Ralph Blakelock’s central and definitive image of choice,” noting that these works are the artist’s most coveted by collectors and museums.[1] His dense color palette and dramatic use of light are exemplified in Blood Moon, which captures the distinctive, visionary abstraction of nature for which he is best known.
[1] Norman A. Geske, Beyond Madness: the Art of Ralph Blakelock, 1847-1919 (University of Nebraska Press, 2007), 49.
Available work by Ralph Albert Blakelock
Moonlit Landscape- The Setting Sun
- Moonlight and Clouds
- Moon Memory
- Forgotten Forest
- Nocturne
- Indian Woman
- Landscape with Rider
- Pond at Twilight
- Prospect Park, Edge of Common
- Rip Van Winkle (The Hermit)
- Ship at Sunset
- Into the Night
- Indian Encampment
- Autumn Touches
- Western Encampment
- Evening Silhouettes
- A Sawmill in the Woods
- Landscape Silhouette at Twilight
- The Mountain Lake
- Forest Landscape
- Hawley, Pennsylvania
- Woodland Stream
- The Pow Wow
- Portrait of Cora Bailey (Mrs. Ralph Blakelock)
- Morning Glory
- Landscape with Figures and Boat
- Indian Dancer
- Fall Landscape, Catskills, with Hikers
- Arizona Canyon
- Fall Landscape
- Encampment at Sunset with Lone Figure
- By the Lake
- The Lost Tribe
- Night Glow
- Mist in the Valley
- In the Primordial Woods
- House by a Stream
- Forest Interior
- Autumn Landscape with Stream
