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Earl Stetson Crawford

Earl Stetson Crawford (1877 - 1966) was active/lived in New York, California / France.  Earl Crawford is known for Portrait and landscape painting, etchings, illustration.

Earl Stetson Crawford
(1877-1965)

Earl Stetson Crawford was born into a prominent Philadelphia family, the grandson of hat-maker, John B. Stetson. At the turn of the 19th century, after studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts*, he joined a stream of aspiring American artists heading to Paris and enrolled in the newly-opened Academie Carmen* of early modernist James McNeill Whistler. The eccentric Whistler thought enough of Crawford's abilities to appoint him "monitor" of his art class, and "when critiquing the work of other students, Whistler would borrow Crawford's palette because he said it made him 'feel at home' " (Merrill, 166)

And in turn, Crawford had been very impressed by Whistler. In his reminiscences, he wrote that he had seen another side, a gentler side of Whistler "than the affected, eccentric figure that Whistler struck in public."  He asserted that Whistler's "ideal has always been to paint 'the underneath-the surface of things, the   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4157 characters.]  Artist bio

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