Under the Cherry Tree

NBI ID: 408.I
Title: Under the Cherry Tree
Medium: oil on panel
Dimensions: 8 1/2 x 11 7/8
Signature: "R.A.B." within arrowhead, lower left
Current Owner: Sheldon Museum of Art
URL of Owner: http://www.sheldonartgallery.org/
CityState: Lincoln, NE
Date: c. 1883
Provenance: Artist; Alfred George Bennett; Mrs. Leigh Pl. Owen; Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, NY; Nebraska Art Association, Nelle Cochrane Woods Collection, 1972.
Published: "Ralph Albert Blakelock 1847-1919, "exhibition catalog, Lincoln, 1975. Nebraska Alumnus, March - April 1975, p. 14.
Exhibited: "Ralph Albert Blakelock 1847-1919," Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln; New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, 1975, Cat. #80, illus. p. 85.
Subject Description: Subjects are Ernest Harry Bennett, left, and his younger brother Alfred George Bennett, the father of Mrs. Leigh P. Owen, Newton, NJ - the seller. The younger child was about three years of age, thus dating the picture about 1883. The Bennetts were neighbors of the Blakelocks in East Orange.
Condition: Good.
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X-ray: Details of one figure and background in a neutron radiography
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