The Setting Sun

NBI ID: 704.I
Title: The Setting Sun
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 20 x 34
Signature: "R.A. Blakelock" lower left
Current Owner: Toledo Museum of Art
URL of Owner: http://www.toledomuseum.org/
CityState: Toledo, OH
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Provenance: Artist; Colonel William P. Roome, through Silas S. Dustin to Frederick S. Gibbs, New York, 1901; Thomas R. Ball, New York, 1903, sold American Art Association, March 14, 1919, lot 142, repr. (titled Summer Moonlight); Robert C. Vose; Arthur J. Secor, 1919-1922
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Exhibited: Lotus Club, New York, Paintings by Ralp Albert Blakelock from the Gibbs Collection, 1902, no.18; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 100th Anniversary of the birth of Blakelock, 1947, no. 22
Subject Description: Trees framing view, lake or river middle distance center, distant hills very vaguely defined. Sun at approximate center of canvas, vaguely seen in general golden tonality of sky.
Condition: Serious bitumen deterioration throughout dark areas, areas pigment at top simply opened up, lines of "slide" or run at lower left. Painting of foliage at lower right dissolved in sliding movements of pigment.
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