Box Car & New Orleans
Ralston Crawford, American, 1906 - 1978
1951
Pen and black ink on wove paper
Sheet: 11 1/16 × 15 3/8 in. (28.1 × 39.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Claire and Richard P. Morse 1953 Fund and the Guernsey Center Moore 1904 Memorial Fund
© Ralston Crawford Estate
D.996.33
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in ink, center: Ralston Crawford; inscribed, in ink, lower left: 1-4, 5-51 A. [encircled]; lower right: 1-5-51; above center: 1-5-51
Course History
SART 15, Drawing I, Kate Emlen, Fall 2013
SART 20, SART 71, Drawing II, Drawing III, Spring 2014
SART 15.01, Drawing I, Esme Thompson, Fall 2020
Exhibition History
Citrin Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 24-July 22, 2019.
Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 29-May 29, 2005; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, June 24-September 11, 2005; National Academy Museum, New York City, New York, October 20-December 31, 2005.
Ralston Crawford's America,"Hirschl and Adler Galleries, New York, New York, no. 41, September 28-November 9, 1996.
Publication History
Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction, Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, pp. 192, 271, ill. p. 193, no. 65.
Provenance
Estate of the artist; consigned to Hirschl and Adler Galleries, New York, New York, 1996; sold to present collection, 1996.
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