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Ralph Albert Blakelock (October 15, 1847 – August 9, 1919) was a romanticist American painter known primarily for his landscape paintings related to the Tonalism movement. Moonlight, c. 1883–1889, High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia
Ralph Albert Blakelock went to the Free Academy in New York to become a physician. After only two years he dropped out and taught himself to paint. In 1869 he began a three-year journey West, creating many paintings and sketches of American Indian encampments and moonlit scenes.
- October 16, 1847
- August 10, 1919
Ralph Albert Blakelock (October 15, 1847 – August 9, 1919) was a romanticist American painter known primarily for his landscape paintings related to the Tonalism movement. Ralph Blakelock was born in New York City on October 15, 1847.
- American
- October 15, 1847
- New York City, United States
- August 9, 1919
Biography. Ralph Blakelock was born in 1847 in New York City, where his father was a homeopathic physician.
Ralph Albert Blakelock American. 1885–95. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 774. "Landscape" is typical of the large-scale woodland scenes that Blakelock painted before his confinement to a mental institution in 1899. An expansive landscape is framed by two copses of bushes and trees.
4 nov 2016 · At the time of his death on August 9, 1919, Ralph Albert Blakelock was hailed by the London Times as “one of the greatest of American artists.”
Ralph Albert Blakelock (born Oct. 15, 1847, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Aug. 9, 1919, near Elizabethtown, N.Y.) was an American painter whose luminous impasto paintings of moonlit scenes convey a mysterious romanticism.
