A Sawmill in the Woods
Type:Painting
Size:23.13" x 40.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Signed
Notes:
Signed lower right: Blakelock (NBI-1727)
Ralph Albert Blakelock ART FOR SALE
1847 New York City - 1919 Middletown, New York. Known for: Luminous landscape and portrait painting.
Born in New York City, Ralph Blakelock earned a reputation for nocturnal, misty scenes, especially moonlit landscapes, large oak trees, and Indian encampments. He also did a small number of floral... Read full biography
Born in New York City, Ralph Blakelock earned a reputation for nocturnal, misty scenes, especially moonlit landscapes, large oak trees, and Indian encampments. He also did a small number of floral still lifes. His work has a mysterious quality, which some associated with the type of music he... Read full biography
Born in New York City, Ralph Blakelock earned a reputation for nocturnal, misty scenes, especially moonlit landscapes, large oak trees, and Indian encampments. He also did a small number of floral still lifes. His work has a mysterious quality, which some associated with the type of music he habitually played on the piano during interludes from his painting. Towards the end of his career, his paintings became increasingly haunting, a reflection of his insanity brought on by horrible poverty and... Read full biography
Born in New York City, Ralph Blakelock earned a reputation for nocturnal, misty scenes, especially moonlit landscapes, large oak trees, and Indian encampments. He also did a small number of floral still lifes. His work has a mysterious quality, which some associated with the type of music he habitually played on the piano during interludes from his painting. Towards the end of his career, his paintings became increasingly haunting, a reflection of his insanity brought on by horrible poverty and his inability to support his family of nine children. He was both a late exponent of the Hudson River School of painting and also of the American West. He also foreshadowed the romantic, visionary, and modern tendencies that marked the turn of the... Read full biography
Born in New York City, Ralph Blakelock earned a reputation for nocturnal, misty scenes, especially moonlit landscapes, large oak trees, and Indian encampments. He also did a small number of floral still lifes. His work has a mysterious quality, which some associated with the type of music he habitually played on the piano during interludes from his painting. Towards the end of his career, his paintings became increasingly haunting, a reflection of his insanity brought on by horrible poverty and his inability to support his family of nine children. He was both a late exponent of the Hudson River School of painting and also of the American West. He also foreshadowed the romantic, visionary, and modern tendencies that marked the turn of the 19th to 20th centuries. This romanticism, especially of escapism, was increasingly pronounced towards... Read full biography
Ralph Albert Blakelock - Art for Sale (10 available)
Into the Night
Type:Painting
Size:25.13" x 30.13"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Left
Notes:
Signed lower left in arrowhead: RA Blakelock.
Arizona Canyon
Type:Painting
Size:11.25" x 6.12"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Signed
Notes:
Signed lower left in arrowhead: R.A. Blakelock; on verso: Arizona Canyon / R. A. Blakelock (in arrowhead)
Rip Van Winkle (The Hermit)
Type:Painting
Size:39.13" x 21.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Unsigned
Notes:
Signed lower left: R. A. Blakelock (NBI-883-I)
By the Lake
Type:Painting
Size:12.25" x 23.38"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Signed
Notes:
Signed lower right in arrowhead: RA Blakelock
Autumn Touches
Type:Painting
Size:5.94" x 7.94"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Signed
Notes:
Signed indistinctly lower left
Landscape Silhouette at Twilight
Type:Painting
Size:7.25" x 10.75"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Signed
Notes:
Signed illegibly lower right (NBI-1719)
Waterfall in the Adirondacks, 1870's
Type:Painting
Year:1870's
Size:12.50" x 10.25"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Left
Edition:n/a
Notes:
An early landscape with waterfall in Autumn, likely painted in the heart of the Adirondack Mountains by Ralph Albert Blakelock, framed in a period moulding. Category II, with label verso.
Russian River, California
Type:drawing
Year:1869-73
Size:5.25" x 6.75"
Medium:Pen and ink
Signed:Unsigned
Notes:
The Russian River flows south thru Sonoma and Mendocino counties, emptying into the Pacific Ocean 60 miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge. Provenance of the drawing is by descent thru the Blakelock family. It is also listed on the Nebraska Blakelock Inventory. Price includes packing and shipping.
Evening Silhouettes
Type:Painting
Size:16.00" x 24.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Signed
Notes:
Signed lower left in arrowhead: R. A. Blakelock