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Moonlight, (painting). Artist:  Blakelock, Ralph Albert, 1847-1919, painter. Title:  Moonlight, (painting). Dates:  ca. 1885-1889. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  27 1/16 x 32 in. (68.7 x 81.3 cm) Inscription:  (Lower right, in arrowhead:) R. A. Blakelock signed Description:  Moonlit landscape with an Indian encampment at left, beside a stream. Figures are gathered around a campfire, canoes are left abandoned on the edge of the stream, and a lone figure on horseback is silhouetted against the distant landscape. Subject:  Landscape -- Time -- Night Landscape -- Celestial -- Moon Ethnic -- Indian Architecture -- Other -- Campsite Architecture exterior -- Domestic -- Tent Architecture -- Boat -- Canoe Figure group Landscape -- River Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York 11238 Accession Number: 42.171 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Blakelock, Ralph Albert, 1889-1892. Bloom, Lew, New York, New York until 1928. Milch Galleries, New York, New York until 1928. Rubens, Horatio S., New York, New York until 1942. Milch & Babcock Gallereis, New York, New York References:  "American Paintings in the Brooklyn Museum: artists born by 1876," Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum, 2006, pg. 303. Carbone, Teresa A., "An American view: masterpieces from the Brooklyn Museum," Brooklyn, N.Y.: Brooklyn Museum 2006, pg. 108. "The Brooklyn Museum, American Paintings," Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum, 1979. Illustration:  Image on file. "American Paintings in the Brooklyn Museum: artists born by 1876," Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum, 2006, pl. 105. Carbone, Teresa A., "An American view: masterpieces from the Brooklyn Museum," Brooklyn, N.Y.: Brooklyn Museum 2006, pg. 109. "The Brooklyn Museum, American Paintings," Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum, 1979, pg. 21. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAP 35680061   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 35680061 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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