Ralston Crawford
Ralston Crawford | |
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Ralston Crawford (1906–1978) was an American abstract
lithographer, and photographer
.
Early life
He was born on September 5, 1906, in
Matisse. After traveling to Paris Crawford enrolled at the Academia Colarossi in 1932, followed by time at the Academie Scandinave a year later.[1] In 1934, he had his first one-man showing at the Maryland Institute College of Art.[2]
Work
Crawford was best known for his abstract representations of urban life and industry. His early work placed him with
Fortune Magazine sent Crawford to the Bikini Atoll in 1946 to record a nuclear weapons
test.
During his abstract period, he said, "I don't feel obligated to reveal the forms. They may be totally absent to the viewer of the work, or even to myself, but what is there, however abstract, grows out of something I have seen. I make pictures."
In 1972 Crawford won an award from the National Academy of Design.[1]
Death
On April 27, 1978, Crawford died of cancer in
Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, and the Toledo Museum of Art. Crawford is buried in St. Louis Cemetery No. 3 in New Orleans, a short distance from one of the Catholic cemeteries in which he produced many of his works.[2]
His wife, Peggy Crawford, a founder of the Modern Art Society, which would later become the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, died April 18, 2015.[3]
Permanent collections
The
Whitney Museum of American Art
Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art(Auburn University, Alabama),(New York City) are among the public collections holding work by Ralston Crawford.
References
- ^ a b Thurber, Hali. "Ralston Crawford". Caldwell Gallery Hudson.
- ^ a b c "Ralston Crawford Biography". Retrieved 6 March 2015.
- ^ Rosen, Steven (22 May 2015). "CAC Announces the Death of Founding Member Peggy Crawford". City Beat. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
- Colta Ives; Janet S. Byrne; Suzanne Boorsch; Maria Morris Hambourg; David W. Kiehl. Recent Acquisitions (Metropolitan Museum of Art), No. 1985/1986. (1985–1986), 41
- "Ralston Crawford is Dead at 71; Abstract Painter and Lithographer". New York Times. 2 May 1978.
Further reading
- Agee, W.C. (1983). Ralston Crawford. Pasadena, CA: Twelvetrees Press.
- Freeman, R.B. (1962). The Lithographs of Ralston Crawford. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press.
- Freeman, R.B. (1973). Graphics '73 : Ralston Crawford . Lexington: University of Kentucky Press.
- Harnsberger, R.S. (1992). Ten precisionist artists : annotated bibliographies [Art Reference Collection no. 14]. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
- Haskell, B. (1985). Ralston Crawford. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art.
- Hirschl & Adler Galleries. (1991). Ralston Crawford and the sea. New York: author.
- Hirschl & Adler Galleries. (1993). Ralston Crawford: images of war. New York: author.
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