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Captive

Ralph Albert Blakelock (1847 - 1919)
Oil on panel
7 x 11⅝ inches
Signed lower right: R. A. Blakelock; on verso in arrowhead: R. A. B.

Provenance

C. W. Dilworth, by 1916

Stremmel Galleries, Reno, Nevada, by 1980

Private collection, Oregon, acquired from above, 1982

Sale, O’Gallerie, Portland, Oregon, September 21–23, 2009, lot 754, from above

Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York, New York, acquired from above

Private collection, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, acquired from above, 2009

Exhibited

Young’s Art Galleries, Chicago, Illinois, Catalog of the Works of R. A. Blakelock, N. A. and of his daughter Marian Blakelock, April 27–May 13, 1916, no. 72

Sierra Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada, In the Barbizon Mood, February 16–March 9, 1980

Literature

J. W. Young, Catalog of the Works of R. A. Blakelock, N. A. and of his daughter Marian Blakelock (Chicago: Young’s Art Galleries, 1916), 44, no. 72.

Related Work

The Captive, 1879, oil on canvas, 15 15/16 x 23 13/16 inches, signed and dated lower right in arrowhead: R. A. Blakelock 1879; Brooklyn Museum, New York

Note

This painting has been authenticated and catalogued by the University of Nebraska Inventory as NBI-984, category II.

A note attached to the verso of the painting reads “This picture of a captive tied to tree on right – and group of Indians in center – a beautiful piece of color I identify as the work of my husband / Mrs. R. A. Blakelock.”

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