Untitled
Type:Painting
Year:1973
Size:36.25" x 26.30"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Signed and Dated
Ralston Crawford ART FOR SALE
1906 St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada - 1978 Houston, Texas. Known for: Structurescape, non-ob, marine painting.
Ralston Crawford was born September 25, 1906 in St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada, near Niagara Falls. He is best known for his images of American landscapes, which he executed in a Precisionist style.... Read full biography
Ralston Crawford was born September 25, 1906 in St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada, near Niagara Falls. He is best known for his images of American landscapes, which he executed in a Precisionist style. In 1910 Crawfords family moved to Buffalo, where he lived until 1926. He favored the water in his... Read full biography
Ralston Crawford was born September 25, 1906 in St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada, near Niagara Falls. He is best known for his images of American landscapes, which he executed in a Precisionist style. In 1910 Crawfords family moved to Buffalo, where he lived until 1926. He favored the water in his youth, sailing the Great Lakes, and later visiting Caribbean and Pacific shores while working on a tramp steamer in 1926 and 1927. Following these years as a sailor, he then turned to art. From 1927 to... Read full biography
Ralston Crawford was born September 25, 1906 in St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada, near Niagara Falls. He is best known for his images of American landscapes, which he executed in a Precisionist style. In 1910 Crawfords family moved to Buffalo, where he lived until 1926. He favored the water in his youth, sailing the Great Lakes, and later visiting Caribbean and Pacific shores while working on a tramp steamer in 1926 and 1927. Following these years as a sailor, he then turned to art. From 1927 to 1933, he studied at numerous institutes, including: the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; the Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania; the Hugh Breckenridge School, in East Gloucester, Massachusetts; the... Read full biography
Ralston Crawford was born September 25, 1906 in St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada, near Niagara Falls. He is best known for his images of American landscapes, which he executed in a Precisionist style. In 1910 Crawfords family moved to Buffalo, where he lived until 1926. He favored the water in his youth, sailing the Great Lakes, and later visiting Caribbean and Pacific shores while working on a tramp steamer in 1926 and 1927. Following these years as a sailor, he then turned to art. From 1927 to 1933, he studied at numerous institutes, including: the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; the Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania; the Hugh Breckenridge School, in East Gloucester, Massachusetts; the Academie Colarossi and Academie Scandinave in Paris in 1932 and 1933; and Columbia University, in 1933. C... Read full biography
Ralston Crawford - Art for Sale (3 available)
Ship's Bow
Type:Painting
Year:c. 1938
Size:30.00" x 26.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Unsigned
Notes:
Exhibited: Selective Visions: The Art of Ralston Crawford, The Trout Gallery, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, 2001. Reproduced in exhibition catalog on p 22-23, no. 9
Box-Car
Type:Painting
Year:1941
Size:16.00" x 22.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
Exhibited: The Arts Club of Chicago, "3 Contemporary Americans" (Karl Zerve, Stuart Davis, and Ralston Crawford), 1945, no. 5 (lent by Downtown Gallery) Note: The Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach has a related gouache.