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Moonrise
Ralph Albert Blakelock (born New York City 1847-died Elizabethtown, NY 1919)
n.d.
- Medium
- oil on wood
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- 15 5/8 x 23 7/8 in. (39.7 x 60.8 cm)
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of William T. Evans
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Kids profiles and older: it shows nature, places, still life or a children's book. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Ralph Albert Blakelock is most famous for his moonlit landscapes. In Moonrise, we can just make out the glowing orb behind thickly painted auburn trees. The mysterious yellow-green light from the sky gives a hint of shadowy earth in the foreground and a tree trunk to the left, intensifying the sense of being in a place within the artist's mind.
