Description: RALSTON CRAWFORD Signed 1962 Original Lithograph This is a superb original signed and numbered limited edition lithograph by internationally acclaimed artist RALSTON CRAWFORD (American, 1906-1978), dated 1962. This rare original lithograph is signed in pencil by the artist on the front lower left "Ralston Crawford". It is also numbered in pencil on the lower right "14/20", from the total limited edition of only 20 impressions. It is dated in the plate "7.23.62". It measures 22 ¼" x 30" (sheet) and is unframed. It is in good condition aside from toning inside an old mat opening and a 1/2" tear at the upper left sheet edge. Authenticity is GUARANTEED. Shipping is $35.00 within the US only, please email for international shipping rates. Please view my eBay store for additional museum quality fine art and collectibles. The son of a ship's captain, Ralston Crawford's life and career were marked by wanderlust. He worked at various jobs before becoming a sailor himself, from 1926 until 1927. After studying art in Los Angeles, he briefly held a job as an illustrator at Walt Disney's studio. Crawford spent the next decade traveling widely and studying art, meeting with early success in exhibiting his work. Primarily a painter, his style is best described as Precisionism, a style popular in the 1920s and 1930s and characterized by the depiction of sharply defined forms. Crawford took up photography around 1937 and continued to photograph during his travels, making the same kind of sharply focused images in photographs that he did in his paintings. In 1950 he began to photograph and document the lives of black jazz musicians in New Orleans, Louisiana, a subject and city to which he would frequently return. Additionally, Crawford held many teaching positions throughout his career, from Honolulu to Buffalo. In 1969, he premiered the first of several short films, Various Depths. An energetic man despite the onset of cancer discovered in 1971, Crawford continued to travel extensively and create until his death at age seventy-one.
Price: 1200 USD
Location: Los Angeles, California
End Time: 2023-12-20T19:57:03.000Z
Shipping Cost: 35 USD
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Item Specifics
All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Features: Signed
Size Type/Largest Dimension: Medium (Up to 30")
Edition Size: 20
Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
Subject: Abstract
Material: Lithograph
Print Type: Lithograph
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
Date: 1962
Edition Type: Limited Edition
Style: Abstract
Signed: Signed
Type: Print
Original/Reproduction: Original Print
