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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1997.85
People
Ralston Crawford, American (St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada 1906 - 1978 Houston, Texas)
Title
Maitland Bridge
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1938
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/287672

Location

Location
Level 1, Room 1300, Modern and Contemporary Art, Early Modernism
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Physical Descriptions

Medium
Transparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on cream wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 30.6 x 40.4 cm (12 1/16 x 15 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Black ink, l.r.: RALSTON CRAWFORD
  • gallery label: formerly back of frame, now in curatorial file, Printed and typed: [Brooklyn Museum, International Water Color exhibition, 1941. Owned by the artist; to be returned to the Boyer Gallery, New York, $75.00]
  • gallery label: formerly back of frame, now in curatorial file, Printed and typed: [Art Institute of Chicago, 20th International Exhibition of Water Colors, 1941. To be returned to the Boyer Gallery, New York, $125.00]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Ralston Crawford. [Boyer Gallery, New York, New York]. Dikran G. Kelekian.
Nanette Rodney Kelekian, New York, New York, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1997.

NOTE: See 1941 exhibition labels from back of frame in the curatorial file. It is not clear whether the Boyer Gallery owned the watercolor, or was handling it on Crawford's behalf.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Nanette Rodney Kelekian
Copyright
© Ralston Crawford Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1997
Object Number
1997.85
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • , checklist
  • Catalogue of the Twentieth International Exhibition of Water Colors, exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL, 1941), checklist no. 261
  • International Water Color Exhibition: Eleventh Biennial, exh. cat., Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY, 1941), checklist no. 39
  • Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), repr. as pl. 44 on p. 113

Exhibition History

  • International Water Color Exhibition: Eleventh Biennial, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, 03/28/1941 - 05/11/1941
  • 20th International Exhibition of Water Colors, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 07/17/1941 - 10/05/1941; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Drawings and Prints, New York, 10/16/1941 - 11/09/1941
  • A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings from 1480 to 1940, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/25/2000 - 07/02/2000
  • 32Q: 1300 Early Modernism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/17/2024 - 04/14/2025

Verification Level

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