Ralston Crawford ART FOR SALE

1906 St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada - 1978 Houston, Texas. Known for: Structurescape, non-ob, marine painting.

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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

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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.

Price: Please contact D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc.

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

Price: Please contact D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc.

Untitled

Type:Painting

Year:1973

Size:36.25" x 26.30"

Medium:Oil

Signed:Signed and Dated

Price: $6,000. Please contact Art-Torg Auctions