Ralston Crawford Art
American, 1906-1978
Ralston Crawford ( Canadian/American, 1906-1978) was a Canadian born American painter and printmaker recognized internationally for his pioneering work in the movement of Precisionism, a style that stressed flat colors, sharp edges with little texture, and embraced industrial images, such as grain elevators, bridges, railroads, and factory scenes, often reducing theses subjects to their essential geometric forms. Crawford also worked in the medium of photography, both as a tool for the painter and as an abstract medium itself. He studied in Los Angeles, Columbia University and Paris. He worked at U.S galleries such as Albright Knox art gallery. He grew up in Buffalo, N.Y. . His history is extensive and is known for his profession as painter, lithographer, illustrator, photographer, lecturer and teacher.to
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'Third Avenue Elevated #1' — Mid-century Precisionist Abstraction
By Ralston Crawford
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ralston Crawford, 'Third Avenue Elevated #1', lithograph, 1951, edition 55. Freeman L51.4. Signed, titled and numbered '48/55' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, with rich ...
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'Les Penitentes #3' — 1970s Modernist Abstraction
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Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ralston Crawford, 'Los Penitentes #3', etching, 1976, edition 20. Signed and numbered '6/20' in pencil; titled and annotated 'specially selected for Marcelle and Dan' in the bottom s...
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Toro and Horse
By Ralston Crawford
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Toro and Horse
Lithograph, 1957
Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist.
Titled in pencil lower left.
Edition: 25 (24/25)
Printer: Ravel, Paris
Reference: Freeman L57.11
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Untitled, Scratchboard
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Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Provenance
Robert Miller Gallery, New York;
Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York;
The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, until 2009;
Sotheby's, New York, American Paintings, Drawings, ...
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LAFAYETTE STREET
By Ralston Crawford
Located in Portland, ME
Crawford, Ralston. LAFAYETTE STREET. Freeman 54.11 Lithograph printed in gray and black on white paper, 1954. Edition of 30, signed in pencil and numbered 23/30. 16 x 22 inches, 407 ...
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1950s Abstract Ralston Crawford Art
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"Grain Elevators, Buffalo"
By Ralston Crawford
Located in Lambertville, NJ
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