TitleSunset
Artist
Ralph Albert Blakelock
(American, 1847 - 1919)
Date1916
MediumOil on cardboard
DimensionsUnframed: 3 1/2 × 5 1/2 in.
Framed: 5 5/16 × 7 13/16 × 1 1/4 in.
SignedSigned on verso: "Painted by Ralph Albert Blakelock-Oct 1916".
SubmissionNA diploma presentation, November 13, 1916
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number95-P
Label Text"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.
1902
