Ralston Crawford

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Ralston Crawford was an American painter and photographer known for his crisp, geometric depictions of industrial and urban scenes that made him a key figure in the Precisionist movement.

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instanceOf Precisionist artist
human
painter
photographer
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1906-09-25
dateOfDeath 1978-04-27
educatedAt Barnes Foundation
Otis Art Institute
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
familyName Crawford
fieldOfWork lithography
painting
photography
printmaking
teaching
gender male
genre industrial landscape painting
urban photography
givenName Ralston
hasWorkInCollection Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art
National Gallery of Art
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Whitney Museum of American Art
movement American modernism
Precisionism
name Ralston Crawford
nationality American
notableFor crisp, geometric depictions of industrial scenes
urban landscape imagery
notableWork Boat and Grain Elevator
Buffalo Grain Elevators
Overseas Highway
Red Barge
Steel Foundry
Tanks, Alabama
Whitestone Bridge
placeOfBirth St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
linked to: St. Catharines
placeOfDeath Houston, Texas, United States of America
style geometric abstraction
hard-edge painting
taughtAt Art Students League of New York
Barnes Foundation
University of Pennsylvania
workLocation Buffalo, New York
linked to: Buffalo

New Orleans
New York City
Philadelphia

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Precisionism hasNotableArtist Ralston Crawford
Ralston Crawford name Ralston Crawford