Moonlight

NBI ID: 605.I
Title: Moonlight
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 12 x 20 1/4
Signature: R.A. Blakelock lower right
Current Owner: deaccessioned from Hirshhorn Museum, 1986
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Provenance: Artist; Harry W. Watrous; F.J. Edgars, Brooklyn, NY; R.C. and N.M. Vose, Boston, MA, 1917; Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, 1917-24; John Levy Galleries, New York, 1924; Amos L. Prescott, New York; Sale: Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, Prescott Estate Auction, June 2, 1950, no. 349; ; Babcock-Milch Galleries, New York, June 2, 1950-55; Graham Gallery, New York, 1955-62; Joseph Hirshhorn, New York, 1962-66; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; deaccessioned, 1986; Sotheby's, New York, 1986, sale no. 5524, 4 December 1986, lot no. 34
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Exhibited: New Have, CT, Yale University Art Gallery, Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture Collected by Yale Alumni, May-June 1960, no. 35.; Lincoln, NE, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Ralph Albert Blakelock (and traveling), January-June 1975, no. 66
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Additional Examination Notes: upper bar of stretcher, right of center: "This moonlight has the most beautiful quality I have seen painted by anyone in a picture of this [character* partially rubbed away]" Harry W. Watrlus Feb. 9, 1917; burnt in wood on lower bar of frame: "Carrig (?) Rohane Shop Inc. #;637 R.C. & N.M. Vose Boston"