The pipe dream

Blakelock, Ralph Albert (1847–1919)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
ca. 1880–1900
Height:
123.2 cm  (48 1/2 in.)
Width:
182.9 cm  (72 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
    [Museum inv. no.: 09.25.1]Signed, lower right, [...] Bla[kelock]

Description

Outdoors a group of American Indians are dancing. An Indian seems to lead the group by holding and beating what is probably a drum (depiction not clear).

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Drum [2585] (not clearly depicted)

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Burke, Doreen Bolger; ed. by Kathleen Luhrs. American paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Vol. III, A catalogue of works by artists born between 1846 and 1864 (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980) 34–36, 41–43. ISBN 0870992449. OCLC 768436249.

Notes

According to a description by Gustav Kobbé, Blakelock seemed to be very interested in music (see Kobbé, Gustav (1913), New York Herald, May 4, 1913... p.2)

RIdIM record id

3188