Forest Landscape
by Ralph Albert Blakelock (1847–1919)18 x 32 inches (approx.)
Signed lower right
Provenance
Graham Gallery, New York, New York
William Doyle Galleries, New York, New York
Marbella Gallery, New York, New York, 1983
Michael Altman Fine Art & Advisory Services, LLC, New York, New York
Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York, New York, acquired from above, 2004
Private collection, Warwick, New York, acquired from above, 2007
Note: This painting has been authenticated and catalogued by the University of Nebraska Inventory as NBI-982, category II.
Artist Biography
ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, in the backwoods of Upstate New York, he languished in a mental institution as his paintings began to break American records. So great was his fame that at an auction in the Plaza Hotel ballroom the total realized for his paintings exceeded the totals for the Monets, the Rembrandts, the Renoirs, the Pissarros, and the Botticellis.
Forever true to his own vision, he lived in abject poverty in the years before he was institutionalized, and even then he never ceased painting, pulling out his own hair for brush bristles and using tobacco juice to augment the meager