FAMOUS PAINTER'S DEATH

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 42, 13 November 1919, Page 5

FAMOUS PAINTER'S DEATH

Ralph Albert Blakelock, the American landscape painter, whoso life was the story of doomed to poverty, died recently at lino Summer Camp of friends ill the Adirondack Mountains, says "The Times" New York correspondent. His gieaUst works, which eventually won him recognition its one of the greatest; of American artists, were painted in obscurity between 1890 and 11)00, and were sold by Blakelock for ,t!10 to ils to support his wJl'o and family and to keep tho wolf from tho door. The highest price ho is known to have received for a picture in those days was .£IOO, Wio same picture being bought by the Toicilo Museum in Wlfi for ,IM<HN). Ono picture, which :he left at Twenty-third Street Y.M.C.A. to pay lys bill, sold a few years ago for .CGOO.

Worry and the hard struggle for oxist.enco eventually produced a mental breakdown, and he was removed to an asylum. Ho had the delusion that he was fabulously wealthy, and would write to friends saying he was sending Uiem some millions for slight favours they had rendered him.