Moon Magic

NBI ID: 220.I
Title: Moon Magic
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 35 3/4 x 30 5/8
Signature: "R.A. Blakelock" lower right
Current Owner: High Museum of Art
URL of Owner: http://www.high.org/
CityState: Atlanta, GA
Date: 
Provenance: Artist; W. Snow, New York; Frank Reside, New York; W. S. Quigley, Los Angeles; Vose Galleries, Boston, early teens (on consignment); W. S. Quigley, after April 1936; Vose Galleries, Aug. 1936; Walter S. Ballou, Providence, R. I., Aug. 1937; Vose Galleries; HMA. March 1938
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Exhibited: 
Subject Description: A low flat landscape with a stream or lake in middle distance and center foreground. A single tall tree stands at right with a full moon at top center slightly framed by the topmost foliage.
Condition: Generally good.
Infra-red: Sharpens the pattern of reflections from middle distance foreground.
UltraViolet: Reveals several large repairs in sky, tree and right foreground.
Color: 
X-ray: Thinly spread ground, as with a palette knife.
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