Blakelock Exhibit to Open Friday at Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery

"The Unknown Blakelock," a retrospective exhibit consisting of over forty paintings by Ralph Albert Blakelock (1847-1919), will open at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln's Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery this Friday, January 25th with a keynote address by Norman Geske at 5:30pm in the Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium. The address will be followed by a reception in Sheldon's Great Hall. Both events are free and open to the public.

Norman Geske is the author of Beyond Madness: The Art of Ralph Blakelock, 1847-1919 (University of Nebraska Press, 2007).

For more information on "The Unknown Blakelock," please visit the exhibit's page on the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery Web site.