The Vision of Life

Seattle, Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, June 1–Oct. 16, 1909, cat. 358, as Ghost Dance. Chicago, Moulton & Ricketts Galleries, Loan Exhibition of Important Works by George Inness, Alexander Wyant, Ralph Blakelock, Mar. 10–22, 1913, pl. 52, as The Ghost Dance. Art Institute of Chicago, Friends of American Art, Loan Exhibition of American Paintings, Jan. 8–28, 1914, cat. 99. Chicago, Galleries of Henry Reinhardt & Son, Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Ralph Albert Blakelock, Apr. 24–May 6, 1916, cat. 17. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 435. Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Survey of American Painting, Oct. 24–Dec. 15, 1940, cat. IL, Durand Art Institute, Lake Forest College, A Century of American Painting: Masterpieces Loaned by The Art Institute of Chicago, June 10–16, 1957, no. 12. Art Institute of Chicago, Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available]. Springfield, Illinois State Museum, Nineteenth–Century American Paintings: a Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, Mar. 5–Apr. 24, 1966; Iowa, Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, May 19–June 5, 1966; Muscatine, Iowa, Laura Musser Art Gallery and Museum, July 24–Oct. 2, 1966; Peoria, Illinois, Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, Nov. 30, 1966–Jan. 8, 1967. The Art Galleries, University of California Santa Barbara, The Enigma of Ralph A. Blakelock, Jan. 7–Feb. 2, 1969; San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Feb. 15–Mar. 16, 1969; Phoenix Art Museum, Mar. 24–Apr. 27, 1969; Huntington, New York, the Heckscher Museum, May 17–June 23, 1969, cat. 88. Grey Art Gallery, New York University, American Painting & Symbolist Aesthetics, Jan. 20–Mar. 2, 1980. Art Institute of Chicago, Window on the West: Chicago and the Art of the New Frontier, 1890–1940, June 28–Oct. 13, 2003. Lincoln, Nebraska, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, The Unknown Blakelock, Jan. 29–Aug. 24, 2008; New York, National Academy of Design, Sept. 25, 2008–Jan. 4, 2009 (Lincoln only). Detroit Institute of Art, Dance! American Art, 1830–1960, Mar. 20–June 12, 2016, cat. 21; Denver Art Museum, July 10–Oct. 9, 2016; AK, Bentonville, Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, Oct. 22, 2016–Jan. 16, 2017.