The Encampment

NBI ID: 227.I
Title: The Encampment
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 10 x 13
Signature: "R.A. Blakelock" lower right
Current Owner: New Britain Museum of American Art
URL of Owner: http://www.nbmaa.org/
CityState: New Britain, CT
Date: 
Provenance: [John Levy Gallery, New York]; E. L. Leuder (?); [Macbeth Gallery, New York --(or is it Milch?); NBMAA, 1942
Published: 
Exhibited: Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., 1961; Colby College, Waterville, Maine, 1964; New Britain Museum of American Art, "The Innermost Eye," November 5-30, 1966, no. 35; Bernard Danenberg Galleries, New York, "Our American Heritage: A Loan Exhibition of Important Paintings for the Benefit of the Building Fund if the New Britain Museum of American Art," September 18-October 12, 1968, no. 34; University of California at Santa Barbara, "The Enigma of Ralph Albert Blakelock," December 5, 1968-June 22, 1969, no. 73
Subject Description: A view across a lake to an Indian camp on the far shore. Tall trees rising from the right foreground frame the right edge of the picture. Other trees on opposite shore frame the left edge. Five teepees, single standing figure and two horses in the water near the shore provide the focus of interest. Distant dark hills on the horizon.
Condition: Considerable part of the sky appears to be repainted, scattered touches in the trees.
Infra-red: Clarifies details of rocks and foliage at lower right.
UltraViolet: Reveals the extent of retouches.
Color: Foliage areas a deep brown - water and sky a golden yellow, distant hills a gray-green.
X-ray: Under coat matches light parts of the design.
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