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The Setting Sun

Artist Ralph Albert Blakelock (American, 1847-1919)
Place of OriginUnited States
Dateabout 1890s
DimensionsFrame: 27 1/2 × 41 1/2 × 2 1/4 in. (69.9 × 105.4 × 5.7 cm)
Mediumoil on canvas
ClassificationPaintings
Credit LineGift of Arthur J. Secor
Object number
1922.17
Not on View
Published ReferencesNebraska Blakelock Inventory, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, no. NBI-704.

Toledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, American Paintings, Toledo, 1979, p. 25, pl. 71.

Raven, James G., "Art and Medicine: Ralph Blakelock," Bulletin, Academy of Medicine of Toledo and Lucas County, vol. 71, no. 2, March-April 1980.

Exhibition HistoryNew York, Lotus Club, Paintings by Ralph Albert Blakelock in the Collection of Frederick S. Gibbs, 1901, n.p., repr. (with verse, "Like some high spirit summond from our sight, the sun steps down into the unknown night").

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Ralph Albert Blakelock Centenary Exhibition, 1947, no. 22.

Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, The Unseen Art of TMA: What's in the Vaults and Why?, September 12, 2004-January 2, 2005 (no catalogue or checklist).

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