The Woodcutter's House
NBI ID: 101.ITitle: The Woodcutter's House
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 9 x 16
Signature: R.A. Blakelock [underlined] lower right
Current Owner: Private Collection
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Provenance: artist; * * * *; Roland Roy Conklin, 1894; Mrs. Stillwell, 1920; Mr. A. Weston Smith, 1924; Mrs. Earl Fischer, 1933; Dr. Ralph J. Nold, MD, Norfolk, VA, 1968
Published: GESKE-1976, p 125 ill; DAVIDSON-1989, p 66 ill
Exhibited: GESKE-1975, Cat 2 p 63 ill.
Subject Description: A clearing in a wooded landscape. The immediate foreground has a number of tree stumps, a wooden bridge leads across a ditch to the middle ground where there are three trees at the left and one fallen tree. At center a man with an axe over his shoulder. A log cabin with a second figure in the open doorway. To the right of the house a partially cleaned area with a number of trees bare of foliage. The middle distance is thickly wooded with a drop in the ground at center opening to a view of the distant horizon.
Condition: Canvas appears to have been cleaned and varnished. Heavy contraction crackle in foreground.
Infra-red: Nothing of significance.
UltraViolet: Nothing of significance.
Color: Picture has an unusually cool palate, grays and blues throughout, contrasted with warm tones of foreground. The painting of the two trees at the left is conspicuously precise and detailed.
X-ray: Fine textured canvas, no discernible ground coat.
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