RALPH ALBERT BLAKELOCK (1845-1919)

Lot 508
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Lot 508 | RALPH ALBERT BLAKELOCK (1845-1919)
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$ 30 000 – 50 000
RALPH ALBERT BLAKELOCK (1845-1919)
The Setting Sun
signed indistinctly 'R.A. Blakelock' (lower left)
oil on canvas
18 x 32 in. (45.7 x 81.3 cm.)
Painted circa 1890s.




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, 14 March 1919, lot 142, sold by the above.
Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts, 1919.
Arthur J. Secor, Toledo, Ohio.
Gift to the present owner from the above, 1922.



Literature

American Art Annual, vol. XX, 1923, p. 70.
S.E. Strickler, The Toledo Museum of Art: American Paintings, Toledo, Ohio, 1979, pp. 25, 153, pl. 71, illustrated.
A.A. Davidson, Ralph Albert Blakelock, University Park, Pennsylvania, 1996, p. 106.



Exhibited

New York, Lotos Club, Exhibition of Paintings by Ralph Albert Blakelock in the Collection of Hon. Frederick S. Gibbs, 1902, p. 5, no. 18 (as "Like some high Spirit summoned from our sight...").
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Ralph Albert Blakelock Centenary Exhibition, April 22-May 29, 1947, no. 22.
Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, The Unseen Art of TMA: What's in the Vaults and Why?, September 12, 2004-January 2, 2005.



Further details

This painting is listed as NBI-704 in the University of Nebraska's inventory of Ralph Albert Blakelock's works.
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