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New Orleans Graveyard
1973 · gelatin silver print
Image: 26.4 x 27.4 cm (10 3/8 x 10 13/16 in.); Paper: 35.4 x 27.9 cm (13 15/16 x 11 in.); Matted: 45.7 x 55.9 cm (18 x 22 in.)
Cleveland Museum of Art
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Ralston Crawford
American, 1906
St. Catharines, ON, Canada
PrintmakingExpressionismCubismGeometric Abstraction
Representation
None documented
12
Institutional Exhibitions
47
Works in Collection
61
Assets Indexed
6
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
90%
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Movements
- • Expressionism
- • Cubism
- • Geometric Abstraction
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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American Prints: 1900�1960; Recent Acquisitions: Illustrated Books
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1985–1986
No image
American Drawn and Matched
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1977
No image
American Prints: 1913�1963
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1974–1975
No image
American Prints from the International Program
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1971
No image
Manhattan Observed
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1968
About
Why this artist matters now
Ralston Crawford was an American modernist painter and printmaker known for geometric abstraction and precisionist landscapes. Working primarily in oil, watercolor, and lithography from the 1930s onward, he developed a distinctive visual language that synthesized cubist structure with the clarity of American industrial and architectural forms. His compositions often featured bold linear frameworks and restrained palettes that emphasized the underlying geometry of urban and natural subjects. Crawford's work bridges the gap between European modernism and American regionalism, establishing him as a significant figure in mid-twentieth-century abstraction.
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Expressionism
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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Cleveland Museum of Art
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