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
Though in the 1930s he developed a Precisionist style of crisp-edged compositions suggestive of an urban industrial landscape, by the 1940s Ralston Crawford moved toward a bold abstraction that still referred in title and form to observable subjects. However, as he expressed, “I don’t feel obligated to reveal the forms. They may be totally absent to the viewer of the work, or even to myself, but what there is, however abstract, grows out of something I have seen.”
Though in the 1930s he developed a Precisionist style of crisp-edged compositions suggestive of an urban industrial landscape, by the 1940s Ralston Crawford moved toward a bold abstraction that still referred in title and form to observable subjects. However, as he expressed, “I don’t feel obligated to reveal the forms. They may be totally absent to the viewer of the work, or even to myself, but what there is, however abstract, grows out of something I have seen.”
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