A Vibrant, Colorful 1930s Modern, American Scene Painting of the Queesnboro Bridge, New York City by Notable Woman Artist, Lesley Buckland Crawford (Am. 1887-1963). A wonderful example of Crawford's Urban Realism practiced in the 1930s & '40s depicting a busy foreground of industrial dockworkers & laborers with the dynamic, overarching span of the Queensboro Bridge in the background.
Artwork size: 18 x 22 inches, oil on canvas (Framed size 23 x 27 inches). Signed "Lesley Crawford", lower right.
Born in 1887, Lesley Buckland Crawford graduated from Vassar College in 1908. Crawford attended the Art Student's league of New York City and was a former student of Kimon Nicolaides (1891-1938). The artist was active in New York, Summit, NJ and Springfield, Vermont. She was known for her Urban Realist inspired paintings, watercolors and lithographs, and colorful landscapes of Vermont. She traveled and painted in Guatemala, Italy and Greece. Crawford was one of the founders of the Miller Art Center in Springfield, VT in 1956. She was also associated with the Southern Vermont Art Center in Manchester, VT, and the Summit Art Association, Summit, NJ. A 1940s lithograph...
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1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings