About This Artwork

Ralston Crawford
American, 1906-1978

Kewalo Close-Up, 1947-48

Oil on canvas
55.9 x 87 cm (22 x 34 1/4 in.)
Gift of Robert F. Crawford (Estate of Ralston Crawford), 1993.495

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Cincinnati Art Museum, Crawford, Cutler, February 16–March 15, 1949, no. 29.

New York, The Downtown Gallery, The Artist Speaks, April 5–23, 1949.

New York, The Downtown Gallery, Ralston Crawford, January 31–February 18, 1950, no. 8.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Art Gallery, Ralston Crawford, February 24–March 17, 1950, no. 1.

New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Ralston Crawford and the Sea, March 9–April 20, 1991, no. 48.

Publication History

Richard B. Freeman, Ralston Crawford, (University of Alabama Press, 1953), p. 34 (ill.).

William C. Agee, Ralston Crawford, (Twelve Trees Press, 1983), cat. 31.

Judith A. Barter et al., "American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955," (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2009), cat. 173.