THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART 
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OCTOBER MORNING. 
Signed. On canvas, 37 yi H., 40^ W. 
Blakelock, Ralph Albert. 
Born, New York, Oct. 15, 1847. Self-taught. Hon. mention, Paris 
Exp., 1900. Specialty, landscapes. 
AT NATURE’S MIRROR. 
Signed. On canvas, 16 H., 23^ W. 
THE CANOE BUILDERS. 
Signed. On canvas, 26^ H., 36 W. 
MOONRISE. 
Signed. On wood panel, 15X H., 23^ W. 
SUNSET, NAVARRO RIDGE, CALIFORNIA COAST. 
Signed. On canvas, $ 5 % H., 55 W. 
Blum, Robert Frederick. 
Born, Cincinnati, Ohio, July 9, 1857; died, New York, June 8, 1903. 
Studied at McMicken School, Cincinnati; Pa. Acad. Fine Arts, and in 
Paris. Represented at several exhibitions and was awarded bronze, silver, 
and gold medals. Besides painting in oil and water color, he engaged in 
illustrative work, and subsequently took up mural decoration, his first 
serious effort in this line being the Moods of Music in Mendelssohn Hall, 
New York, begun in 1893. N. A., 1893; member, Soc. Amer. Artists; 
Amer. Water Color Soc.; Mural Painters. 
CANAL IN VENICE, SAN TROVASO QUARTER. 
On canvas, 34 H., 23 W. 
Bogert, George H. 
Bom, New York, 1864. Pupil of National Academy of Design, and of 
Puvis de Chavannes, Aime Morot and E. Boudin in Paris. Hon. mention, 
Pa. Acad. Fine Arts, 1892; Webb prize, Soc. Amer. Artists, 1898; first 
Hallgarten prize, Nat. Acad. Design, 1899; bronze medal, Paris Exp., 1900, 
for the painting Sea and Rain; silver medal, Pan- Amer. Exp., Buffalo, 1901; 
gold medal, Amer. Art Soc. Phila., 1902 and 1907; silver medal, St. Louis 
Exp., 1904. A. N. A., 1899. Specialty, landscapes. Studio, New York. 
