Pond at Twilight, 1919

Provenance

Private collection, Columbus, Ohio
Private collection, acquired from above

Related Work

Moonlight, circa 1880s, oil on canvas, 22 x 27 inches, signed lower left in arrowhead: R.A.  Blakelock; Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
Moonlight, 1885-1919, oil on canvas, 16 x 24 inches, University of Washington Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington

Note

Painted in the year of his passing, Pond at Twilight showcases Blakelock’s mastery of the “bucolic ingredients of nineteenth-century American landscapes—the sheen of a lake’s surface, the Gothic drama of granite cliffs, the subtle poetry of a twilight sky with its gradations of blue to lavender to chartreuse, pink.”[1]

[1] Glyn Vincent, The Unknown Night: The Genius and Madness of R.A. Blakelock, An American Painter (Grove Press, 2003), 82.