The Setting Sun

Provenance

The artist
Colonel William P. Roome, New York, acquired from the above, by 1899
Frederick S. Gibbs, New York, by 1901
Thomas R. Ball, New York, 1903
American Art Association, New York, March 14, 1919, lot 142
Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts, 1919
Arthur J. Secor, Toledo, Ohio
Private collection, acquired from the above, 1922
Sale, Christie’s, New York, January 23, 2026, lot 508

Exhibited

Lotos Club, New York, Exhibition of Paintings by Ralph Albert Blakelock in the Collection of Hon. Frederick S. Gibbs, 1902, no. 18 (as “Like some high Spirit summoned from our sight…”).

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Ralph Albert Blakelock Centenary Exhibition, April 22-May 29, 1947, no. 22.

Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, The Unseen Art of TMA: What’s in the Vaults and Why?, September 12, 2004-January 2, 2005.

Literature

Lotos Club, Exhibition of Paintings by Ralph Albert Blakelock in the Collection of Hon. Frederick S. Gibbs, 1902, 5, no. 18 (as “Like some high Spirit summoned from our sight…”).

The American Federation of the Arts, American Art Annual, vol. XX, 1923, p. 70.

S.E. Strickler, The Toledo Museum of Art: American Paintings (Toledo Museum of Art, 1979), 25, 153, pl. 71, illustrated.

Lloyd Goodrich, Ralph Albert Blakelock: Centenary Exhibition (Whitney Museum of American Art, 1947), 50, no. 22.

A.A. Davidson, Ralph Albert Blakelock (University Park, Pennsylvania), 1996, 106.

Related Works

Moonrise, oil on wood, 15 ⁵⁄₈ x 23 ⁷⁄₈ inches; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

Afterglow, 1870-90, oil on canvas, 16 x 24 inches; Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas

Note

This painting has been authenticated and catalogued by the University of Nebraska Inventory as NBI-704, category I.