Deer in a Deep Woods / Ralph Albert Blakelock
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1983/1.83
- Title
- Deer in a Deep Woods
- Artist
- Ralph Albert Blakelock
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- 1847-1919
- Medium and Support
- oil on canvas
- Object Creation Date
- 1862-1904
- Object Creation Place
- North and Central America (continent)
- United States (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- North and Central America (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Gilbert M. Frimet
- Inscription
- Inscribed (within arrowhead) l.r.: RA BLAKELOCK
- Dimensions
- 35.9 cm x 51.2 cm (14 1/8 in. x 20 3/16 in.)
- Century
- 19th-20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Primary Object Type
- landscape
- Physical Description
- Landscape painting depicting trees with a solitary deer in the center of the canvas
- Subject Matter
- Blakelock eschewed a literal transcription of nature, preferring to paint evocative and emotional paintings of illuminated moments in nature, of moonlit landscapes depicting the wilderness and solitude. “Deer in a Deep Woods” includes a solitary figure of deer absorbed into the setting rather than being the focus of the painting, and is imbued with a melancholy drawn from Blakelock’s deeply felt response to nature.
- Secondary Keywords
- animals
- animals and creatures
- buildings and the land
- cultural landscapes
- cultural landscapes by location or context
- mammals
- modern and contemporary art
- natural landscapes
- plants
- settlements and landscapes
- the natural world
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- wilderness
- woods
- woody plants
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 703 x 489
- File Size
- 28 KB
- Record
- 1983/1.83
- Link to this Item
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"Deer in a Deep Woods; Ralph Albert Blakelock." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1983-sl-1.83/1983_1.83.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 16, 2024.
