Western Encampment

Provenance

Private collection, Far Hills, New Jersey
Questroyal Fine Art, acquired from above
Private collection, Wilton, Connecticut

Related Works

Indian Encampment on the James River, North Dakota, 1872, oil on wood panel, 15 ¾ x 28 ½ inches; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, California
An Indian Encampment, 1880-1900, oil on canvas, 37 5/8 x 40 5/8 inches; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York

Note

“By enmeshing his intuitive aesthetic with Native American subjects, Blakelock anticipated European modernist aesthetics of the early twentieth century, as well as the forays into the subconscious practice later by the surrealists.”_[1]

_[1] Karen O. Janovy and Janice Driesbach, The Unknown Blakelock, (The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, 2008), 48.