Ralph Albert Blakelock

George A. Hearn, New York (acquired by 1908)

American Art Association, New York, 26 February 1918, lot 91 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Bertram T. Newhouse, New York

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (acquired as a gift from the above by 1969)

Sotheby's, New York, 5 December 1985, lot 23 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Los Angeles Municipal Art Department, The American Scene, 1956

The Art Galleries, University of California Santa Barbara; San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor and Phoenix Art Museum (and traveling), The Enigma of Ralph A. Blakelock 1847-1919, 1969, no. 86, p. 29; p. 74, illustrated

San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, The Color of Mood: American Tonalism 1880-1910, 1972, no. 2

Spokane, Washington, World's Fair, Our Land, Our Sky, Our Water, 1974

Exh. Cat., Lincoln, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Trenton, New Jersey State Museum, Ralph Albert Blakelock 1847-1919, 1975, pp. 19 and 32 (note 18)

Glyn Vincent, The Unknown Night: The Genius and Madness of R.A. Blakelock, An American Painter, New York, 2003, p. 217

The present work was once owned by George A. Hearn, one of the most prominent American art collectors and donors of the 19th century. Hearn collected across a spectrum of contemporary Americans including but not limited to John Singer Sargent, George Inness, Winslow Homer, Childe Hassam and more. He later bequeathed much of his collection to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Later, this work passed into the esteemed collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where it was lent to landmark exhibitions for the artist such as The Enigma of Ralph A. Blakelock 1847-1919, organized by the University of California Santa Barbara.