Sunset Ralph Albert Blakelock 1916

Sunset
Ralph Albert Blakelock 1916
From the collection of
National Academy Museum & School
"Landscape" ("Sunset") may have been painted shortly after Blakelock's release from the Middletown State Hospital for the Insane. The picture relates to his confinements period when he often sketched in the countryside surrounding the hospital. He gave many such works as gifts to friends and acquaintances. These pictures are small in scale and vividly, almost exuberantly, colored. The freely applied strokes of paint and the inclusion of areas of bare support or canvas are common to his late works.
Details
Title: Sunset
Creator: Ralph Albert Blakelock
Date Created: 1916
Physical Dimensions: 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 inch
Provenance: Gift from the artist, NA diploma presentation November 13, 1916
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on cardboard

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New York, United States

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Ralph Albert Blakelock
Oct 15, 1847 - Aug 9, 1919

Ralph Albert Blakelock was a romanticist painter from the United States.
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