Lights in an Aircraft Plant
1945
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View on museum website →Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 77.1 x 102.2 cm (30 3/8 x 40 1/4 in.) framed: 88.9 x 114.3 x 6 cm (35 x 45 x 2 3/8 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Burton Tremaine
Accession Number
1971.87.1
About the Artist
Ralston Crawford
Ralston Crawford (1906–1978) was a Canadian-born American painter, printmaker, and photographer whose work stands as one of the most rigorous expressions of Precisionism in the twentieth century. Born in St. Catharines, Ontario, and raised in Buffalo, New York, he began formal art training at the Otis Art Institute in California in 1927 before moving on to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts...