There Was Peace Among the Nations

NBI ID: 395.I
Title: There Was Peace Among the Nations
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 20 x 36
Signature: "R.A. Blakelock" in arrowhead lower left
Current Owner: Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art
URL of Owner: http://www.gilcrease.org/
CityState: Tulsa, OK
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Provenance: Senator Frederick S. Gibbs; E.C. Anderson; J. Campbell; F.G. Ravelli
Published: Catalogue of the Collection of Senator Frederick S. Gibbs (privately printed, 1901), unnumbered; Young, Vernon, "Out of the Deepening Shadows: The Art of Ralph Albert Blakelock," Arts, 32:1 (October 1957), p. 25; Cohen, Allen, "The Tragic Landscape of Ralph Blakelock,"; The City College Alumnus, November 1972; p. 9.; Lincoln, 1975, illus.; Art in America, 9 (June 1921) p. 169.
Exhibited: Blakelock Centenary Exhibition. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, April 22-May 29, 1947, No. 19.
Subject Description: Very distinct centered signature in will drawn arrowhead; trees feathery in texture, with trunk and branches overdrawn in dark pigment; sky pale blue shading to golden-pink at horizon; golden brown in foreground. Figures with dark black hair; bright yellow-red and green in details of costumes; very broadly brushed (?) around head and hands; touches of color in figures in distance.
Condition: Generally good.
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