Kewalo Close-Up

Arts of the Americas

1947–48

Ralston Crawford
American, 1906–1978

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Ralston Crawford
Title: Kewalo Close-Up
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: c. 1947–1948
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 55.9 × 87 cm (22 × 34 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Robert F. Crawford (Estate of Ralston Crawford)
Reference Number: 1993.495

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 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), cat. 77. 173.

Cincinnati Art Museum, Crawford, Cutler, Feb. 16–Mar. 15, 1949, no. 29.
New York, The Downtown Gallery, The Artist Speaks, Apr. 5–23, 1949.
New York, The Downtown Gallery, Ralston Crawford, Jan. 31–Feb. 18, 1950, no. 8.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Art Gallery, Ralston Crawford, Feb. 24–Mar. 17, 1950, no. 1.
New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Ralston Crawford and the Sea, Mar. 9–Apr. 20, 1991, no. 48.

The artist; to his estate; given by his son, Robert F. Crawford [estate] to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1993.

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