Word: blakelock
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...Washington janitor named James Hampton, The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly. The visionary urge appeared less often in professional art, until Modernism arrived. There are elements of it in the work of Thomas Cole and in the dark, brooding landscapes of Ralph Blakelock (1847-1919), who was to suffer a depressive breakdown and spend the last 20 years of his life in a mental hospital. But the exemplar of the visionary state was Blakelock's exact contemporary, Albert Pinkham Ryder...