Lobster Pots #1
1955
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lithograph in black on Arches paper
Dimensions
overall: 38 x 57 cm (14 15/16 x 22 7/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Neelon Crawford
Accession Number
2000.164.9
Art Historical Context
Ralston Crawford's *Lobster Pots #1* (1955) is a striking black lithograph on fine Arches paper, measuring 38 x 57 cm. Created during the artist's mature period, this print captures stacked lobster traps in a precisely rendered composition that exemplifies Crawford's Precisionist style. Precisionism, an American modernist movement of the early 20th century, the geometry and industrial forms of everyday life, blending realism with abstraction much like contemporaries Charles Sheeler and Charlesuth. Crawford, a master printmaker and photographer (1906–1978), transformed humble maritime objects ...
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...