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RALSTON CRAWFORD (1906-1978)

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Auction dateClassic
18.04.2024 10:00UTC -04:00
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ID 1182775
Lot 41 | RALSTON CRAWFORD (1906-1978)
RALSTON CRAWFORD (1906-1978)

Boat and Grain Elevator

signed 'Crawford' (lower center)

oil on canvas

30 x 36 in. (76.2 x 91.4 cm.)

Painted in 1942.





Provenance

The artist.

Private collection, by descent from the above.

Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, sold by the above.

Charles K. Williams II, Pennsylvania, acquired from the above, 1998.

James Reinish & Associates, Inc., New York.

Acquired by the present owner from the above.



Literature

R.B. Freeman, Ralston Crawford, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1953, p. 45, no. 42.8.

W.C. Agee, Ralston Crawford, Pasadena, California, 1983, pp. 9, pl. 21, illustrated (as Boat and Grain Elevators).



Exhibited

Flint, Michigan, Flint Institute of Arts, The Works of Ralston Crawford, 1942, no. 10.

New York, The Downtown Gallery, Ralston Crawford: In Peace and in War, January 4-29, 1944, no. 7.

Honolulu, Hawaii, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Ralston Crawford: Paintings, Photographs, Photograms, 1947, no. 21.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Milwaukee Art Center, Ralston Crawford, February 6-March 9, 1958, p. 22, no. 8.

Cincinnati, Ohio, The Contemporary Arts Center, Ralston Crawford Retrospective Exhibition, February 19-March 25, 1971, p. 36.

New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., Ralston Crawford and the Sea, March 9-April 20, 1991, pp. 27, 69, no. 26, illustrated (as Boat and Grain Elevators).

New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., Streamlined: The Precisionist Impulse in American Art, November 22, 1995-January 6, 1996, pp. 4, 6, 33, no. 15, illustrated (as Boat and Grain Elevators).

New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., Ralston Crawford's America, September 28-November 9, 1996, no. 20.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Adventures in Modern Art: The Charles K. Williams II Collection, July 12-September 13, 2009, pp. 102-104, 320, pl. 29, illustrated (as Boat and Grain Elevators).
Artist:Ralston Crawford (1906 - 1978)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Art style:Modern art
Category:Painting
Auction house category:Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings
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