Ralston Crawford: Air & Space & War by Rick Kinsel (English) Hardcover Book

Description: Ralston Crawford by Rick Kinsel Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description American art underwent a transformation during the period 1940–55, and nowhere is that change better exemplified than in the work of Ralston Crawford (1906–1978). Crawford worked in a variety of media throughout his career, and his wartime and early postwar art ranged from designing camouflage and creating weather infographics for the US Army to documenting the detonation of the atomic bomb for Fortune magazine. This exciting new book explores Crawfords influences and the ideas and experiences he had during World War II and its aftermath, and chronicles a period of change, during which Crawford gradually moved away from celebrating feats of engineering and industrial development to creating imagery that was more abstract and far more personal, expressing the grief and anxiety of the postwar world. Crawfords painting during the 1930s had largely been a dazzling series of Precisionist works that reflected American advances in industry, engineering and technology. After the United States entered World War II, Crawford served in the Weather Division of the Army Air Forces. He created pictorial representations of weather patterns for airplane pilots, and was exposed to countless photographs of air crashes. He continued working as an artist throughout the conflict, receiving a commission to paint the Curtiss-Wright aircraft plant in Buffalo, New York, and, in 1946, an assignment to observe and record one of the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll. These experiences had a profound impact on Crawford, and marked a major turning point in his life and art. Published to coincide with an exhibition opening at the Dayton Art Institute, Ralston Crawford: Air & Space & War presents a remarkable selection of Crawfords paintings, drawings, photographs and prints from this time. These vary from powerful images of chaos and devastation to ordered and precise paintings of airplane assembly at the Curtiss-Wright plant and cover illustrations and charts related to weather, flight and radar for Fortune magazine. The evolution of many of the works can be traced from photograph and drawing to the finished painting, revealing Crawfords decisions about form and space, which were informed by his experiences with airplanes and flight. Accompanying the artworks is a series of perceptive essays. Rick Kinsel considers Crawfords war years in the context of developments in both aviation and American art. Emily Schuchardt Navratil reflects on aerial views by Crawford and on his Curtiss-Wright commission. Amanda Burdan looks at Crawfords work for Fortune, while Jerry Smith surveys various American and European abstract renditions of airplanes and flight as a means by which to place Crawfords interest in aviation during World War II into a broader historical context. In the final essay, John Crawford examines the importance of photography in his fathers work, and explores collage as both a compositional technique and as a term that may be used to describe the series of intense experiences that contributed to Crawfords development as an artist in the 1940s and early 1950s. 270 illustrations Author Biography Rick Kinsel has been on the board of directors of the Vilcek Foundation since its establishment in 2000. He became Executive Director of the foundation in 2003 and President in 2016, in which role he manages the Vilcek Collection, conceives and facilitates the curation of traveling exhibitions based on the collection, and oversees the foundations primary operations in the award of prizes and grants in the arts, sciences and humanities. Emily Schuchardt Navratil is Curator at the Vilcek Foundation. She has worked with the Vilcek Collection since 2009, previously serving as Associate Curator, Assistant Curator and Curatorial Assistant. For the foundation, she has curated the exhibitions With Color (2013, to coincide with the publication by Merrell of Masterpieces of American Modernism from the Vilcek Collection), Ralston Crawford: Torn Signs (2019; catalogue published by Merrell) and Marsden Hartley: Adventurer in the Arts (2020; catalogue published by Merrell). Amanda C. Burdan is Curator at the Brandywine River Museum of Art in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, where she has worked since 2012. A specialist in American art, she has organized many exhibitions of the fine and decorative arts in the United States, several of which have explored regional expressions of American art and the transfer of styles from European sources. She previously served as Assistant Curator at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, Connecticut. Jerry N. Smith is Chief Curator and Director of Education at the Dayton Art Institute. He was formerly Curator of American and European Art at Phoenix Art Museum and Interim Director and Chief Curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida. He has overseen more than 50 diverse exhibitions, including Leonardo da Vincis Codex Leicester and the Power of Observation (2015), Andy Warhol: Portraits (2015), The Art of the Classical Guitar (2016) and Dorothy Heights Hats (2019). His publications include Howard Post: Western Perspectives (2013) and Don Coen: The Migrant Series (2014). John Crawford is the son of Ralston Crawford. After studying for his bachelors degree in sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design, he moved to Italy in 1976 and was apprenticed for ten years to Tuscan blacksmiths, making forged-steel sculpture and tools in a sixteenth-century water-powered forge. Since his return to New York City, he has made sculpture using large- and small-scale industrial forging and machining techniques. His work has been exhibited at numerous venues in the United States. His research on his fathers art has focused primarily on the photographs as a lens through which to study Ralston Crawfords paintings, lithographs and drawings. Details ISBN 1858946913 ISBN-13 9781858946917 Title Ralston Crawford Author Rick Kinsel Format Hardcover Year 2021 Pages 216 Publisher Merrell Publishers Ltd GE_Item_ID:131362585; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. 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