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Ralston Crawford
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American
, 1906–1978)
Ralston Crawford
New York City Buildings, 1930s,
1930–1939
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1910 - 1926
Moves to Buffalo, New York; works various jobs, including employment as an architectural draftsman; during vacations he travels with his father, a ship’s captain, around the Great Lakes
1926 - 1927
Works as sailor on steamships to Central America, California, and the Caribbean; studies in Los Angeles at Otis Art Institute, 1927; employed as illustrator in Walt Disney’s studio, 1927
1927 - 1930
Studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia (under Hugh Breckenridge), and at the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania
1930 - 1932
Moves to New York to paint; summers in Gloucester, Massachusetts; receives good reviews by Edward Alden Jewell of The New York Times
1932 - 1933
Travels to Paris, Spain and Italy; returns to New York to study at Columbia University
1935 - 1939
Lives and paints in Chadds Ford and Exton, Pennsylvania; subjects of paintings are mostly local barns and industrial images; experiments with photography, which remains a lifetime interest; continues to receive favorable reviews in The New York Times and in the New York Sun
1940 - 1941
Participates in group exhibition A New Realism: Crawford, Demuth, Sheeler, Spencer at the Cincinnati Art Museum; produces paintings, book jackets and book illustrations in New York
1943 - 1945
Serves as master sergeant, chief of the Visual Presentation Unit of the Weather Division in the Army Air Force; assigned to the China-Burma and India theatre; visits Curtiss-Wright aircraft plant in Buffalo, and in ensuing years makes paintings relating to his photographs of the assemblage of airplane wings at the plant; solo exhibition at Downtown Gallery, New York, 1944
1947 - 1950
Teaches and paints in Honolulu, Brooklyn, Cincinnati, Minneapolis and Baton Rouge; solo show at Downtown Gallery, New York, 1950
1951 - 1957
Travels in Europe and returns to New York, 1951-52; teaches at New School for Social Research, New York, 1952-57
1954 - 1958
Lives in France; travels to Spain to study Goya’s paintings; major retrospective at Milwaukee Art Center, 1958
1959 - 1961
Travels through Spain and Paris and the United States; appointed consultant to the Archive of New Orleans Jazz at Tulane University, New Orleans; included in major exhibition The Precisionist View in American Art at The Walker Art Center, Minnesota, 1961
1962 - 1967
Travels to Greece, France and Egypt to make prints and photographs; visiting artist positions held at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln and at the University of Illinois in Champaign
1970 - 1971
Receives award from National Academy of Arts and Letters; travels through Spain and England; solo show at Zabriskie Gallery, New York (and again in 1973 and 1976)
1973 - 1978
Travels include: Europe; Asia; Nepal; Afghanistan; and the South Pacific; dies April 27, 1978, in Houston, Texas; buried in St. Louis Cemetery, New Orleans
1906
Born September 25th in Ontario, Canada
1934
First solo exhibition held at the Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore
1942
Teaches at the Albright Art School in Buffalo; enlists in the 603rd Engineers Camouflage Battalion, US Army
1946
Sent by Fortune to witness atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll to paint his impressions; solo show at Downtown Gallery, New York
1953
Retrospective at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
1954
Solo show at Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York (and again in 1956 and 1958)
1965
Solo exhibition at Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
1968
Retrospective at Creighton University Fine Arts Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska; travels include Guadeloupe, Shelter Islands and Martinique
1969
Lives in New York; solo exhibition at the Century Association, New York (and again in 1978)
1972
Receives award from National Academy of Design, New York
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Exhibitions
1937
Boyer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (first solo show)