Ralph Blakelock (1847-1919) Blakelock was born and studied in New York City and began his career as a late Hudson River School landscape painter. He made his exhibition debut at the National Academy of Design in 1868, exhibiting there annually until 1873 and sporadically thereafter. He rose from the ranks of the unknown and untrained to the unlikely status of being the most highly publicized ...

RALPH ALBERT BLAKELOCK 1847-1919 Twilight, c. 1898 Oil on canvas, 20 X 30 (50.80 x 76.20 cm.) Signed, lower right Gift of H. H. Stambaugh, 919-0-103 Landscape with Cows Twilight is representative of a large body of poetically conceived nocturnal landscapes produced by Ralph Albert Blakelock almost exclusively from 1883 to 1898 that share the artist's signature chiaroscuro treatment of anonymous ...