# Moonrise

- By: Ralph Albert Blakelock (born New York City 1847-died Elizabethtown, NY 1919)
- Date: n.d.
- Medium: oil on wood
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: 15 5/8 x 23 7/8 in. (39.7 x 60.8 cm)
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of William T. Evans
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=2160)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/6ccfb10ff80fa081bcbfd2ef7f0963c9.jpg
- Who can see it: Kids profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.