Encampment at Sunset with Lone Figure

Provenance

Sale, Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas, May 7, 2016, lot 68079

Exhibited

Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York, New York, Ralph Albert Blakelock: The Great Mad Genius Returns, November 11–December 10, 2016

Related Works

Indian Encampment on the James River, North Dakota, 1872, oil on wood panel, 15 ¾ x 28 ½ inches; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, California
An Indian Encampment, 1880-1900, oil on canvas, 37 5/8 x 40 5/8 inches; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York

Note

“By enmeshing his intuitive aesthetic with Native American subjects, Blakelock anticipated European modernist aesthetics of the early twentieth century, as well as the forays into the subconscious practice later by the surrealists.”

—Karen O. Janovy and Janice Driesbach, The Unknown Blakelock, (The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, 2008), 48.