Four Original Miniature Landscapes by Blakelock Family Members

Lot Details & Additional Photographs

Including two winter landscapes by Eden Blakelock (American, 1903-1996), both are oil on card, the first inscribed to verso "Eden Blakelock / Best wishes for the New Year / Eden & Gertie" (4 x 5 in.) (some abrasion and surface lifting to upper right corner), the second is signed with a monogram at lower right, unframed (5 x 4 in.) (minor nicking to edges); the third by Mary Florence Blakelock Vedder (American, 1886-1973), watercolor on paper, signed "M. F. Vedder" at lower left (6 1/8 x 6 1/4 in.) (deep toning to sheet, crease line in upper left corner); and the fourth is unsigned, oil on card (3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.) (wear to edges, scattered paint flaking to sky).

From the Collection of Ralph Albert Blakelock's Great-Granddaughter

Eden Blakelock, grandson of the celebrated American painter Ralph Albert Blakelock, worked alongside his father as a sign painter in Catskill, New York. Influenced both by his family’s artistic legacy and the renewed enthusiasm for his grandfather’s paintings in the early twentieth century, Eden developed his own artistic practice. His natural talent led to the exhibition of his work at the 15th Annual Exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists in New York in 1931.