U.S.S. Pensacola

Details

Ralston Crawford (1906-1978)
U.S.S. Pensacola
signed 'Ralston Crawford' (lower left)
gouache on paperboard
8¾ x 13 in. (22.2 x 33 cm.), image; 11 x 15 in. (27.9 x 38.1 cm.), sheet
Executed in 1946.

Provenance

Sale: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, War Assets Administration, 19 June 1948.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Literature

M.L. Ausfeld, V.M. Mecklenburg, Advancing American Art: Politics and Aesthetics in the State Department Exhibition, 1946-48, exhibition catalogue, Montgomery, Alabama, 1984, pp. 70-71, no. 15, fig. 36, illustrated.

Exhibited

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and elsewhere, Advancing American Art, October 4-27, 1946.
Montgomery, Alabama, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, and elsewhere, Advancing American Art: Politics and Aesthetics in the U.S. State Department Exhibition, 1946-1948, January 7-March 4, 1984, no. 15.

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Lot Essay

The present work has been requested for the 2012-2014 traveling exhibition Art Interrupted: Advancing American Art and the Politics of Cultural Diplomacy, organized by Mark A. White, Ph.D. and the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma.

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