Blakelock
RALPH ALBERT, an American painter, born in New York City, Oct. 15, 1847; was graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1869; was self-educated in art. His paintings include "Ta-vo-kok-i; or, the Circle Dance of the Kavavite Indians," "Cloverdale, Cal.," "Moonlight," "The Indian Fisherman," "A Landscape," "On the Face of the Quiet Waters," "Cumule," etc. Examples of his work are exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and public galleries in Washington, Worcester, etc. For years his work was unappreciated, so that his mind became affected and he spent some years in an asylum. The National Academy paid him tardy recognition by making him an associate in 1913 and an academician in 1915. He died in 1916.