Live Auction 2467Fine American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
Ralston Crawford (1906-1978)
Lot 161 Property of the Owego Apalachin Central School District

Ralston Crawford (1906-1978)

U.S.S. Pensacola

Closed27 September 2011

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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.

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

Specialist note

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.