Three Composition Studies
Ralston Crawford
1954
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View on museum website →Medium
pen and black ink on wove paper
Dimensions
overall: 29 x 39.8 cm (11 7/16 x 15 11/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Neelon Crawford
Accession Number
2001.133.14
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...