Mountain Bird Maru
Artist: Ralston Crawford (American, 1906-1978)
Date: 1947-1949
Dimensions:
Painting: 28 × 36 in. (71.1 × 91.4 cm)
Frame: 36 × 43 3/4 × 3 in. (91.4 × 111.1 × 7.6 cm)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Museum Purchase Fund
Object number: 1950.265
Label Text:"I am never concerned with a pictorial logic to the exclusion of feeling…The genesis of my pictures varies greatly. They are complete when they express a synthesis of my emotion and ideas."
Ralston Crawford traveled widely, studying art in several places, and later teaching it in many institutions. He had a brief stint in the late 1920s as an animator at Walt Disney Studios. He was drafted into the army in World War II, and when it was over, he was commissioned by Fortune magazine to be the only artist to witness the test detonation of two nuclear bombs on Bikini Atoll in July 1946.
Though in the 1930s he developed a Precisionist style of crisp-edged views of industrial buildings, by the 1940s Crawford moved toward a bold abstraction that still made reference in title and form to observable subjects.
Ralston Crawford traveled widely, studying art in several places, and later teaching it in many institutions. He had a brief stint in the late 1920s as an animator at Walt Disney Studios. He was drafted into the army in World War II, and when it was over, he was commissioned by Fortune magazine to be the only artist to witness the test detonation of two nuclear bombs on Bikini Atoll in July 1946.
Though in the 1930s he developed a Precisionist style of crisp-edged views of industrial buildings, by the 1940s Crawford moved toward a bold abstraction that still made reference in title and form to observable subjects.
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