California Woods (Medieval Forest)

NBI ID: 563.I
Title: California Woods (Medieval Forest)
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 36 1/4 x 56 1/2
Signature: "R.A. Blakelock" [underlined, black pigment] lower right
Current Owner: Massillon Museum
URL of Owner: http://www.massillonmuseum.org/
CityState: Massillon, OH
Date: Feb. 13, 1869 [label in file]
Provenance: Stephen B. Smith, Elizabeth, NJ; Silas S. Dustin, Akron, OH, 1905; Mrs. Ralph G. Pocock Akron, OH; gift to the Massillon Museum, 1951
Published: Bulletin, Massillon Museum, Oct-Dec. 1969, illus.
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Subject Description: A stream flowing from the center of the picture into the foreground is flanked on both sides by tall trees, with a single tree with gnarled branches in right foreground, also a fallen trunk and broken branches at right and left corners.
Condition: Conservation by Edward G. Perkins, Youngstown, OH, 1965, very heavy crackle throughout. Relined canvas.
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Additional Examination Notes: present whereabouts unknown