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The Dark of Night
Ralph Albert Blakelock (1847 - 1919)
Oil on board
4¼ x 4¼ inches
Signed lower right: R. Blakelock
4¼ x 4¼ inches
Signed lower right: R. Blakelock
Provenance
Private collection
Sale, Bill Hood & Sons Art & Antiques Auctions, Delray Beach, Florida, February 23, 2016, Lot 0248
Private collection
Private collection
Related Work
Afterglow, 1870-90, oil on canvas, 16 x 24 inches, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas
Note
Blakelock scholar Norman Geske, in Beyond Madness: The Art of Ralph Blakelock, 1847–1919, observes that the artist at times adopted a freer, expressive manner, with night scenes approaching abstraction. He suggests it is “not improbable that Blakelock recognized an innovative concept and proceeded to experiment in his own way in a purely private exercise of perception and skill.”[1]
[1] Geske, Beyond Madness: The Art of Ralph Blakelock, 1847-1919, 58.
Available work by Ralph Albert Blakelock
Pond at Twilight- Prospect Park, Edge of Common
- The Vale of Cashmere, Prospect Park
- Water Tower, Prospect Park
- Hidden Moon
- Rip Van Winkle (The Hermit)
- Ship at Sunset
- Into the Night
- Indian Encampment
- Autumn Touches
- A Spring Garden
- Western Encampment
- Evening Silhouettes
- A Sawmill in the Woods
- Landscape Silhouette at Twilight
- The Mountain Lake
- Four Native Americans in a Landscape
- Forest Landscape
- Hawley, Pennsylvania
- Woodland Stream
- The Pow Wow
- Portrait of Cora Bailey (Mrs. Ralph Blakelock)
- Morning Glory
- Marine, Seal Rock
- Indian Dancer
- Fall Landscape, Catskills, with Hikers
- Arizona Canyon
- Fall Landscape
- Encampment at Sunset with Lone Figure
- By the Lake
- The Lost Tribe
- Night Glow
- Mist in the Valley
- In the Primordial Woods
- House by a Stream
- Forest Interior
- Autumn Landscape with Stream
