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Hand painted shapes in bold colors on textured paper

On heavy white paper with a feathered edge, boldly painted shapes are arranged within a tall rectangular area, with a narrow blank border all around. On the center-right side, two bold black lines run the length of the image in parallel, the line on the right not quite reaching the bottom. Between them are two muted red triangles, one spaced apart above the other, and red shapes that are cut off at the top and at the bottom. Behind these lines and shapes are stacked alternating white and slate gray squares. Interlocking rectangular shapes in bright blue and yellow occupy the left half.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2001.200
People
Ralston Crawford, American (St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada 1906 - 1978 Houston, Texas)
Title
Study for "Third Avenue Elevated"
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1952
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/167821

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gouache over black chalk on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
image: 26.3 x 17.7 cm (10 3/8 x 6 15/16 in.)
sheet: 28 x 19.5 cm (11 x 7 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: back of frame, paper, printed and typed; inscribed: APG 14378D.51 [inscribed at u.r.: 417]
  • inscription: backing, lower left, graphite: RC42754
  • inscription: l.c. in black ink: May 20/52

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Zabriskie Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 2001.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Charles O. Wood, III and Miriam M. Wood in honor of Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr.
Copyright
© Ralston Crawford Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
2001
Object Number
2001.200
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • , checklist
  • Zabriskie Gallery, Six American Painters and the Photograph, brochure (New York, NY, 2001), repr.

Exhibition History

  • Six American Painters and the Photograph, Zabriskie Gallery, New York, 01/30/2001 - 03/17/2001
  • HAA 10 Survey Course: The Western Tradition, Art Since the Renaissance, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/08/2008 - 04/06/2008
  • 32Q: 1110 Mid-Century Abstraction II (Post-Painterly Abstraction), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/06/2016 - 10/13/2016

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