Portrait of Cora Bailey (Mrs. Ralph Blakelock)

Provenance

The artist
Mrs. G. W. Bailey
H. D. G. Rohlfs Jr., Brooklyn, New York
Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts, 1908
J. R. Andrews, Bath, Maine, 1912
Estate of above
Sale, American Art Association, New York, New York, January 28, 1916, no. 124
J. W. Young, Chicago, Illinois, acquired from above
Keifer Newman
Victor Spark, New York, 1946
Dr. and Mrs. T. Edward Hanley, Bradford, Pennsylvania
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California, gift from above, 1969

Exhibited

Young’s Art Galleries, Chicago, Illinois, Works of R. A. Blakelock, N. A. and of his daughter Marian Blakelock, April 27–May 13, 1916, no. 61 (as Portrait of Mrs. Blakelock)
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, Ralph Albert Blakelock Centenary Exhibition, April 22–May 29, 1947, no. 4 (as Portrait of Mrs. Blakelock)
Gallery of Modern Art, New York, New York, Selections from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. T. Edward Hanley, January 3–March 12, 1967
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, 1967
M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, California, 1968
The Enigma of Ralph Albert 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. 36 (as Portrait of Mrs. Blakelock)
Canisius College, Buffalo, New York, Works from the Hanley Collection at Canisius College, 1969, no. 3
M. H. de Young Memorial Museum and the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California, The Dr. T. Edward and Tullah Henley Memorial Collection, 1970–71, no. 4
M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, California, Three Centuries of American Painting, 1970, no. 10
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California, The Color of Mood: American Tonalism 1880–1910, 1972, no. 4
Ralph Albert Blakelock: 1847–1919, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, January 14–February 9, 1975; New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey, May 4–June 7, 1975, no. 79 (as Portrait of Mrs. Blakelock)
Berkeley Art Museum, California, 2001
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, n.d.

Literature

Mrs. R. A. Blakelock and 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), 37, cat. no. 61.
Lloyd Goodrich, Ralph Albert Blakelock Centenary Exhibition (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1947), 21; 44, cat. 4.
Selections from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. T. Edward Hanley (New York: Gallery of Modern Art, 1967), 11, 57.
David Gebhard, The Enigma of Ralph Albert Blakelock: 1847–1919 (Santa Barbara, California: The Art Galleries, University of California Santa Barbara, 1969), 26, cat. 36.
Works from the Hanley Collection at Canisius College (Buffalo, New York: Canisius College, 1969), cat. no. 3, 3.
The Dr. T. Edward and Tullah Hanley Memorial Collection (San Francisco: M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, 1970), cat. no. 4, 13, 36, pl. 12.
Three Centuries of American Painting (San Francisco: M. H. de Young Memorial Museum and the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1970), cat. no. 10, 26, 101.
The Color of Mood: American Tonalism 1880–1910 (San Francisco: California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1972), cat. no. 4.
Abraham A. Davidson, Ralph Albert Blakelock (University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University, 1996), color plage 8.
Norman Geske, Ralph Albert Blakelock: 1847–1919 (Lincoln, Nebraska: Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, 1975), 22, 43–4, cat 79; 84.