Evening Silhouettes

Provenance

The artist
Harry Watrous, acquired from above
Erickson Perkins, acquired from above, 1896
Mrs. Erickson Perkins, Rochester, New York
Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts, 1946
Michael Altman Fine Art & Advisory Services, New York, New York
Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York, New York, acquired from above, 2004
Private collection, Bloomington, Illinois, acquired from above, 2004

Exhibited

Ralph Albert Blakelock Centenary Exhibition in Celebration of the Centennial of the City College of New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, April 22–May 29, 1947, no. 6

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, 1956

The Enigma of Ralph A. Blakelock, 1847–1919, The Art Galleries, University of California Santa Barbara, California, January 7–February 2, 1969

California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California, February 15–March 16, 1969

Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona, March 24–April 27, 1969

The Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York, May 17–June 23, 1969, no. 62

Ralph Albert Blakelock: The Great Mad Genius, Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York, New York, November 15–December 14, 2005

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

Literature

Lloyd Goodrich, Ralph Albert Blakelock: Centenary Exhibition (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1947), 44, 52, no. 6.

David Gebhard and Phyllis Stuurman, The Enigma of Ralph A. Blakelock, 1847–1919 (Santa Barbara: University of California, 1969), 27, 63, no. 62.

Ralph Albert Blakelock: The Great Mad Genius (New York: Questroyal Fine Art, 2005), 4, 54, no. 2.

Ralph Albert Blakelock: The Great Mad Genius Returns (New York: Questroyal Fine Art, 2016), plate 37.

Related Works

Flame of Spring, 1948, watercolor on paper, 40 x 30 inches; Munson-Williams Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, New York

Note

This painting has been authenticated and catalogued by the University of Nebraska Inventory as NBI-216, category I.