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Home > Art > Construction #8

Construction #8

Geometric shapes of grey, teal, blue and black with diagonal dashes that outline a large grey shape resembling a building.
Artist

Ralston Crawford

Date

1958

Medium

Oil on canvas

Object Type

Painting

Dimensions

H- 24 1/8 x W- 36 1/4 in. (61.3 x 90.1 cm)

Artist's Country of Birth

Canada

Collecting Area

American Modernism

Credit Line

The Vilcek Foundation

Accession Number

VF2016.03.03

Copyright

© Estate of Ralston Crawford/VAGA, New York

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architecture City New York
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Geometric shapes of grey, teal, blue and black with diagonal dashes that outline a large grey shape resembling a building.

The Artist;
By descent to the Artist’s son, Robert Crawford;
Private Collection, Santa Barbara, CA;
[The Owings Gallery, Santa Fe, NM];

New York. Grace Borgenicht Gallery. Ralston Crawford. October 28-November 15, 1958, np.,cat. no. 11.

New York. Robert Miller Gallery. Ralston Crawford. [May] 1983.

Lawrenceville, NJ. Hutchins Gallery, Lawrenceville School. 2002.

New York. Megan Moynihan Fine Art and Frank Riehlman Fine Art. Precise, Oblique. 2003.

Agee, William C.  Ralston Crawford. Pasadena, CA: Twelve Tree Press, 1983, p. 16, ill. pl. 50.

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