Moonrise

NBI ID: 84.I
Title: Moonrise
Medium: oil on wood panel
Dimensions: 15 9/16 x 24
Signature: "R.A. Blakelock" in red, lower left
Current Owner: National Museum of American Art
URL of Owner: http://americanart.si.edu/index3.cfm
CityState: Washington, DC
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Provenance: Macbeth; William T. Evans, by 1902; gift to National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington D.C. 1909
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Exhibited: Union League Club, N.Y., 1903; Lotos Club, N.Y., 1906; National Arts Clubs, N.Y., 1906; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1907-1909; Smithsonian Institution, National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C., 1910; Vose Gallery, Boston, 1917 (?); M. H. DeYoung Memorial Museum, San Francisco, 1935; Blair Housem Washington, D.C., 1957-58
Subject Description: Horizontal rectangle. Wooded landscape. Full moon slightly right and center appears behind leafy branches. Large trees to left and right. Sky is subdued golden at center, turning greener toward top and upper right. Foliage dark browns.
Condition: Notes from Curator's file: "Restored in 1964 by Mr. Henri Courtais (reduction of accretions of varnish and inpainting as necessary to remedy damages). "Condition, 1968. Pronounced warping of panel (convex warp, from top to bottom). Extensive inp
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Additional Examination Notes: Studied at the Brookhaven Laboratory by neutron photography on April 28, 1975. *Examination by Mr. Thomas Carter, NCFA Conservation Lab, 12/7/72: "Convex warp from top to bottom. Poor. Surface degraded by alteration of paint structures. Wrinkling movement of paint layers. Traction cracking. Pitts or bubbles. Extensive retouching throughout. Original appearance difficult to imagine."