Moonlight

NBI ID: 108.I
Title: Moonlight
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 16 3/8 x 23 1/8
Signature: R.A. Blakelock lower left
Current Owner: Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute
URL of Owner: http://www.cmoa.org/
CityState: Pittsburgh, PA
Date: 
Provenance: Artist; Catholina Lambert, Patterson, N.J.; Labert Sale, AAA, Feb. 21-24, 1916, No. 140; Macbeth; Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg, 1916.
Published: Ladies Home Journal, V. 44, Feb., 1927, p. 28, color.; American Artists, March 1962, p. 31
Exhibited: Young's Art Gallery, Chicago, Ill., 1916; The Bancroft House, Saginaw, Mich., 1916; Whitney Museum of American Art, N.Y., 1938; Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Mass., 1938; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg, 1939; Whitney, 1947; Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus Ohio, 1952; Carnegie Institute, 1957; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, 1957; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1957; Baltimore Museum of Art, 1957; Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, 1957; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1960.
Subject Description: Horizon line at bottom third of canvas. Right foreground and center middle distance taken up with a large body of water. Overhanging tree and foliage at picture's right edge. Low shrub at water's edge center, higher foliage at left edge. Full moon at right center of sky.
Condition: Good. Relined.
Infra-red: Nothing of significance.
UltraViolet: Shows textured surface and generally even varnish coat.
Color: 
X-ray: Nothing of significance.
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