Moonlight Sonata

NBI ID: 214.I
Title: Moonlight Sonata
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 30 x 22
Signature: "R.A. Blakelock" lower right
Current Owner: Museum of Fine Arts
URL of Owner: http://www.mfa.org/
CityState: Boston, MA
Date: 
Provenance: Artist; Lew Bloom, New York, between 1889-1892; Young, 1923; Ralph Cudney, Chicago; Babcock, 1936; Macbeth, 1942; Vose, 1945; Museum of Fine Arts, Charles Henry Haydon Fund, Boston, 1945
Published: 
Exhibited: San Francisco Museum of Art, 1936; Montana State University, 1937; Babcock, 1942; Whitney, 1947; Santa Barbara, 1969; San Francisco, 1969; Phoenix, 1960; Huntington, 1969
Subject Description: Tall trees right and left framing foreground pool with a full moon in the center of the sky.
Condition: Relined 1942 by Beers Bros., N.Y.C. Heavy bloom in the varnish. Few old repairs, mostly at lower edges, some presently active bitumen deterioration.
Infra-red: Nothing of significance.
UltraViolet: Nothing of significance.
Color: 
X-ray: Very thin irregular ground.
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