The Unknown Blakelock offers new perspectives on Ralph A. Blakelock (1847 1919) by addressing the modernity of his accomplishments as reflected in the exhibition s paintings. A self-taught artist, Blakelock digressed from habitual procedures into stylistic experiments that were considerably in advance of common practice of the time. Associated primarily with the two dominant themes of moonlight views and Indian encampments, Blakelock was already acknowledged as a colorist during his career, an aspect of his painting attesting to his receptivity to modernist developments but largely...