Indian Woman

Provenance

The artist
Private collection, New Jersey, from above
Private collection, Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, by descent from above
Private collection, Red Bank, New Jersey
Slydell Gallery, New York
Questroyal Fine Art, New York
Private collection, Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Literature

Opinion Letter, Norman A. Geske, February 7, 2007

Related Work

The Canoe Builders, after 1879, oil on canvas, 26⅞ x 36 ⅞ inches, signed lower left in arrowhead: R.A. Blakelock; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C

This painting has been authenticated and catalogued by the University of Nebraska Inventory as NBI–2018, category I.

Blakelock scholar, Norman A. Geske, believed that the artist’s smaller works with Native American figures “represent Blakelock in his most introspective mood.” The overall mood of mystery in these figural works supersedes the specific theme or narrative, which in places is tantalizingly obscure.[1]

[1] Abraham A. Davidson, Ralph Albert Blakelock (The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996), 62.