The Signal Fire

Ralph Albert Blakelock traveled the American West between 1869 and 1872 to sketch landscapes and native peoples. After he returned, he continued to paint western images inspired from the trip. In The Signal Fire a glowing moon rises above an American Indian perched on the edge of a cliff. The fire, crackling away below him, sends waves of wispy smoke in the air, possibly signaling someone on the tip of the mountain in the distance.

À propos du tableau

Notice

Dans la même salle · Luce Foundation Center, 3rd Floor, 6B, Smithsonian American Art Museum

Sur le même thème · Landscape

Oui, elle reçoit

Ce qu’elle montre

Au catalogue

Sources

Moonrise

Clear Creek Canyon, Rocky Mountains, Colorado

The Artist's Garden

Moonlight

The Vista

Landscape

Near Acapulco, Coast of Mexico

Near Magdalena Bay, Baja, California

Three Girls and River, 1907

Passing Song, before 1902

Moonlight, 1887

Florizel and Perdita, by 1887

Christ Appearing to Mary, ca. 1885

The Lovers' Boat, ca. 1881

Dancing Dryads, by 1879

Panel for a Screen: Children Frightened by a Rabbit, ca. 1876

Wheat Field with Cypresses, 1889

Houses on the Achterzaan, 1871

Paysage avec un pont de pierre, c. 1638

Hiëronymus lezend in een Italiaans landschap, c. 1653

From Glacier Point, 1927

Oak Tree, Snowstorm, Yosemite National Park, California, 1948, printed 1981

High Country Crags and Moon, Sunrise, Kings Canyon National Park, California, c. 1935, printed 1979

Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Arizona, 1942, printed 1981