The Necklace

NBI ID: 401.I
Title: The Necklace
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 29 x 36
Signature: "Ralph Albert Blakelock" inside large open arrowhead lower right
Current Owner: Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art
URL of Owner: http://www.gilcrease.org/
CityState: Tulsa, OK
Date: 1877-80?
Provenance: Artist; East Side YMCA, New York, NY for unpaid bill; Parke-Bernet Sale, April 9, 1947; ** E & A Milch, New York, NY, 1949; Gilcrease Institute of American History, 1949.
Published: Parke-Bernet, 1947, Cat. No. 207, p. 79; The Art Digest, May 1, 1947, cover; Young, Vernon, "Out of Deepening Shadows, The Arts of Ralph Albert Blakelock," Arts, Vol. 32, 1957, p. 29, illus.; The Art Digest, May 1, 1947, cover;
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Subject Description: Figures in bright, golden tone with some small interior touches of color (red) - male figures (staff, arrow?); Indian types; unusually fine tree 25 left with ?? Offshoot branches - no distinctly defined foliage; color, rubbed over color.
Condition: canvas relined. Generally good.
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