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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