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Third Avenue Elevated #4
195219 13/16 x 12 7/8 in. (50.3 x 32.7 cm)
Ralston Crawford
American (St. Catherines, Ontario, 9/5/1906 - 4/27/1978, New York, NY)
Object Type:
Print
Medium and Support:
Color Lithograph
Credit Line:
Gift of Isabel C. Herdle in memory of Hilda Altschule Coates
Accession Number:
1983.9
Location: Not currently on view
Edition: 35/45
Ralston Crawford believed that the “emancipation of the times” would be attained through industrialization. His earlier Precisionist style and his ongoing preoccupation with industry, the machine, and speed can be seen in his painting Whitestone Bridge, 1939-40, in the Memorial Art Galley collection (accession number 51.2).
By the time he created this print, Third Avenue El #4, Crawford’s style had become significantly more abstract. Here he captures the ubiquitous vertical steel pylons that support elevated train tracks throughout New York City neighborhoods.
[label text for Modern Icon: The Machine As Subject in American Art exhibition, February 3 – March 6, 2012]
By the time he created this print, Third Avenue El #4, Crawford’s style had become significantly more abstract. Here he captures the ubiquitous vertical steel pylons that support elevated train tracks throughout New York City neighborhoods.
[label text for Modern Icon: The Machine As Subject in American Art exhibition, February 3 – March 6, 2012]
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Survey of American Printmaking Memorial Art Gallery 5/2/1987 - 10/18/1987
- Master Prints from Upstate New York Museums Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art 3/17/1995 - 7/20/1996
- Modern Icon: The Machine as Subject in American Art Memorial Art Gallery 2/3/2012 - 5/6/2012
Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Article Scope: Entry. Sandra Haller Olsen. A Survey of American Printmaking from the Collection of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1987.
- Richard B. Freeman. The Lithographs of Ralston Crawford. Louisville, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1962.
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