In the Primordial Woods
17¾ x 23⅞ inches
Signed lower right in arrowhead: RA Blakelock
Provenance
George F. McMurray, Glendale, California (as Indian Encampment)
Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, on long term loan from above, 1970s–80s
Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, New York
Private collection, New York
Sale, Brunk Auctions, Asheville, North Carolina, March 13–14, 2015, lot 79, from above
Exhibited
The Enigma of Ralph A. Blakelock, 1847–1919, The Art Galleries, University of California Santa Barbara, California, January 7–February 2, 1969; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California, February 15–March 16, 1969; Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona, March 24–April 27, 1969; The Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York, May 17– June 23, 1969, no. 76 (as Indian Encampment)
Ralph Albert Blakelock: The Great Mad Genius Returns, Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York, New York, November 11–December 10, 2016
Literature
David Gebhard and Phyllis Stuurman, The Enigma of Ralph A. Blakelock, 1847–1919 (Santa Barbara: University of California, 1969), 28, no. 76 (as Indian Encampment).
Ralph Albert Blakelock: The Great Mad Genius Returns (New York: Questroyal Fine Art, 2016), plate 48.
Note: Prior to the discovery of further information and provenance, this painting’s University of Nebraska’s classification was: NBI-800-III, which neither confirms nor denies authenticity. Based upon a review of the painting and the additional data, we are confident that it is an authentic work by Ralph Albert Blakelock.
More work by Ralph Albert Blakelock
- Sunset Landscape
- Autumn Touches
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- Morning Storm
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- Western Encampment
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- A Sawmill in the Woods
- Landscape Silhouette at Twilight
- The Mountain Lake
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- Captive
- Forest Landscape
- Hawley, Pennsylvania
- Woodland Stream
- Woodland Cabin
- The Pow Wow
- Portrait of Cora Bailey (Mrs. Ralph Blakelock)
- Morning Glory
- Marine, Seal Rock
- Landscape with Figures and Boat
- Indian Dancer
- Fall Landscape, Catskills, with Hikers
- Arizona Canyon
- Fall Landscape
- Encampment at Sunset with Lone Figure
- By the Lake
- The Lost Tribe
- Night Glow
- Mist in the Valley
- House by a Stream
- Forest Interior
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