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Ralston Crawford

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Ralston Crawford (1906 - 1978) was active/lived in New York, Ontario / Canada.  Ralston Crawford is 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 Academie Colarossi and Academie Scandinave in Paris in 1932 and 1933; and Columbia University, in 1933.

Crawfords first one-man show was in 1934 at the Maryland Institute of Art in Baltimore.  His e   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 15133 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  103
Magazine References:  3

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3 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Ralston Crawford
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Mead Art Museum June 2004 Clark, Trinkett Yes
American Art Review Pennsylvania Impressionists & Moder October 2001 Alterman, Jim Yes
American Art Review Masterworks/Munson-Williams-Proctor June 1998 Schweitzer, Paul D Yes
103 Book References for Ralston Crawford
Year Author Title Pages Color
2018 Canterbury, Sue and Adrian Daub Cult of the Machine: Precisionism and American Art (De Young and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)
(Exhibition catalog)		 244 Yes
2012 Embury, Stuart; Brandon K. Ruud; Norman Geske; Jorge Daniel Veneciano, Introduction A Legacy of Giving: The Anna and Frank Hall Collection (The Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 Yes
2009 Behrens, Roy R. Camoupedia: A Compendium of Research on Art, Architecture and Camouflage 461 No
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Passantino, Erika D (editor) The Eye of Duncan Phillips A Collection in the Making 819 Yes
1998 Calo, Mary Ann Critical Issues in American Art A Book of Readings 328 No
1997 Agee, William C Modern American Painting 1910-194 Toward A New Perspective
(Exhibition catalog)		 24 No
1996 Addison Gallery Addison Gallery of American Art 65 Years A Selective Catalogue
(Exhibition catalog)		 512 Yes
1996 Hopps, Walter (others) American Images/The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art 320 Yes
1995 Nash, Steven A Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in Bay Area 216 Yes
1994 Lucie-Smith, Edward American Realism 240 Yes
1994 Stavitsky, Gail; Ellen Handy, Miles Orvell et all Precisionism in America 1915-1941 Reordering Reality
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 Yes
1992 Harnsberger, R S/D Henderson Ten Precisionist Artists Annotated Bibliographies 350 No
1992 National Gallery of Art American Paintings An Illustrated Catalogue
(Exhibition catalog)		 545 No
1991 Ratcliff, Carter Ralston Crawford and the Sea
(Exhibition catalog)		 67 Yes
1990 Acton, David A Spectrum of Innovation Color in American Printmaking 1890-1960
(Exhibition catalog)		 304 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 622 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1990 Pisano, Ronald G Long Island Landscape Painting Vol ll, The Twentieth Century
(Exhibition catalog)		 168 Yes
1989 Armstrong, Tom/Susan C Larsen Art in Place Fifteen Years of Acquisition
(Exhibition catalog)		 230 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 538 No
1989 Littleton, Taylor/M Sykes Advancing American Art Painting, Politics and Cultural Confrontation
(Exhibition catalog)		 159 Yes
1989 Whiting, Cecile Antifascism in American Art 238 No
1988 Columbus Museum of Art The American Collections Columbus Museum of Art 271 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 376 Yes
1988 Susan Sheehan Inc American Masterworks on Paper 1800-1960 104 No
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1987 Danto, Arthur C The State of the Art 228 Yes
1987 Johnson, Deborah J Whistler to Weidenaar American Prints 1870-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 128 No
1987 Krane, Susan The Wayward Muse Historical Survey of Painting in Buffalo
(Exhibition catalog)		 208 Yes
1987 Levin, Gail Twentieth Century American Painting Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection 407 Yes
1987 Stich, Sidra Made In U S A An Americanization in Modern Art '50s & 60s
(Exhibition catalog)		 280 Yes
1987 Williams, Dave & Reba American Screenprints 0 Yes
1986 Munson Williams-Proctor Inst Two Hundred Years of American Art 101 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Rose, Barbara American Painting: The Twentieth Century (Second edition) 170 Yes
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 DuPont, Diana, K Holland San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection 402 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Haskell, Barbara Ralston Crawford
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 Yes
1985 Kloss, William/C C Eldredge Treasures from the National Museu of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 254 Yes
1984 Ausfeld, M L/V M Mecklenburg Advancing American Art Politics and Aesthetics/State Dept Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 108 Yes
1984 Baigell, Mathew American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History 420 No
1984 Clark-Langager, Sarah Order and Enigma
(Exhibition catalog)		 95 No
1984 Deak, Gloria-Gilda Kennedy Galleries Profiles of American Artists 288 No
1984 Marks, Claude World Artists 1950-1980 912 No
1984 Marlor, Clark S The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944
(Exhibition catalog)		 600 No
1983 Adams, Clinton American Lithographers 1900-1960: The Artists and Their Printers 228 Yes
1983 Agee, William C Ralston Crawford Painting and Visual Experience 175 Yes
1983 Stebbins, Theodore/C Troyen The Lane Collection 20th-Century Paintings in the American Tradition
(Exhibition catalog)		 183 Yes
1982 Tsujimoto, Karen Images of America Precisionist Painting and Photography
(Exhibition catalog)		 248 Yes
1981 Armstrong, Tom Amerikanische Malerei 1930-1980
(Exhibition catalog)		 301 Yes
1981 Davidson, Abraham A Early American Modernist Painting 1910-1935 324 Yes
1981 Newark Museum American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 431 Yes
1981 Osborne, Harold The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art 656 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1981 Whitney Museum Twentieth Century Drawings Selections from the Whitney 136 No
1980 Hirschl & Adler Galleries Buildings Architecture in American Modernism
(Exhibition catalog)		 96 Yes
1980 Johnson, Una E American Prints and Printmakers A Chronicle of Over 400 Artists 266 Yes
1980 Neuen Gesellschaft Bild. Kunst Amerika Traum und Depression 1920-1940
(Exhibition catalog)		 544 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Kahan, Mitchell Douglas (Intro) Art Inc, American Paintings from Corporate Collections Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama
(Exhibition catalog)		 298 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1979 Strickler, Susan (Catalogue); William Hutton (Editor) The Toledo Museum of Art American Paintings 227 Yes
1978 Whitney Museum American Art 1934-1956 Selections from Whitney Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 148 Yes
1977 Hirschl & Adler Galleries Lines of Power
(Exhibition catalog)		 40 Yes
1976 Castelman, Riva American Prints 1913-1963
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 No
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1976 Milwaukee Art Center From Foreign Shores Three Centuries...Foreign Born American Masters
(Exhibition catalog)		 186 Yes
1975 Mason, Lauris/Joan Ludman Print Reference Sources Bibliography 18th-20th Centuries 246 No
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1974 Buffalo Fine Arts Academy American Art in Upstate New York Drawings, Watercolors and Small Sculptures 80 No
1973 Freeman, Richard B Ralston Crawford/Graphics '73
(Exhibition catalog)		 96 Yes
1971 Porter, Allen/Wm McGonagle The Thirties Decade American Artists and Their European Contemporaries
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 No
1970 Hope, Henry Radford (Essay) The American Scene 1900-1970 An Exhibition of twentieth century painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 119 No
1970 Myers, Bernard S (editor) Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc) 511 Yes
1969 Janis, Sidney Abstract & Surrealist Art in America 146 No
1968 Agee, William C The 1930's Painting & Sculpture in America
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 Yes
1968 Georgia Museum of Art Highlights from the Collections Georgia Museum of Art 36 No
1968 Robbins, Daniel/David W Scott An American Collection The Neuberger Collection 463 Yes
1967 Rose, Barbara American Art Since 1900 A Critical History 320 Yes
1967 Walker, Lester C American Painting the 1940's
(Exhibition catalog)		 40 No
1966 Larkin, Oliver W Art and Life in America Revised and Enlarged Edition 559 Yes
1965 Whitney Museum A Decade of American Drawings 8th Exhibition Sponsored by Friends
(Exhibition catalog)		 52 No
1964 Baur, John I H Between the Fairs: 25 Years of American Art 1939-1964
(Exhibition catalog)		 91 Yes
1963 Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery Art Collections/Univ of Nebraska A Selection of Works/Inauguration of Sheldon Memorial
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 No
1962 Gordon, John Geometric Abstraction in America
(Exhibition catalog)		 68 Yes
1962 Weller, Allen S/Lee Nordness Art U S A Now (2 volumes) 474 Yes
1960 Walker Art Center The Precisionist View in American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 62 Yes
1957 Brooklyn Museum Golden Years of American Drawing 1905-1956
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 No
1956 Tate Gallery Modern Art in the United States Selection from MOMA New York
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 No
1955 Museum of Modern Art El Arte Moderno en Los Estados Unidos (Barcelona exhibition)
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 No
1955 Myers, Bernard Encyclopedia of Painting 511 Yes
1953 Freeman, Richard B Ralston Crawford 48 No
1951 Ritchie, Andrew Carnduff Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America
(Exhibition catalog)		 159 Yes
1949 Reese, Albert American Prize Prints of the 20th Century 257 No
1946 Pagano, Grace; Donald Bear (Intro) Contemporary American Painting 260 Yes
1943 Kootz, Samuel M New Frontiers in American Painting 65 Yes
1939 Boswell, Peyton Jr Modern American Painting 207 Yes
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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