NELSON-ATKINS MUSEUM, GIFT OF NEELON CRAWFORD
Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.
Today’s show: “Structured Vision: The Photographs of Ralston Crawford” is on view at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, through April 7. The solo exhibition presents the late artist’s photographs, which “provide an essential look at a vital era of abstraction in American art, and at the cultural scenes and subjects from which that creative sensibility arose,” according to the museum’s website.
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Ralston Crawford, Bow and Rope, 1972, gelatin silver print
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Ralston Crawford, Door with Striped Pole and Striped Wall, New Orleans, 1967, gelatin silver print.
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Ralston Crawford, Flower Vases on Tomb, New Orleans, ca. 1959, gelatin silver print.
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Ralston Crawford, Hanging Concrete, Cologne, Germany, ca. 1951, gelatin silver print.
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Ralston Crawford, Fishing Boat Stern Rigging, 1971, gelatin silver print
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Ralston Crawford, Grain Elevators, Buffalo, ca. 1942, gelatin silver print.
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Ralston Crawford, Staging Area, Coulee Dam, 1972, gelatin silver print.
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Ralston Crawford, Duluth Rail Yard Scrap, 1961, gelatin silver print
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Ralston Crawford, Unloading the Cargo, ca. 1942, gelatin silver print.
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Ralston Crawford, Dock Workers, 1938, gelatin silver print.
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Ralston Crawford, Holy Week, Seville, Spain, 1972, gelatin silver print
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Ralston Crawford, Dancer and Meyer Kennedy at the Caravan Club, New Orleans, 1953, gelatin silver print.
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Ralston Crawford, Women in Sunday School Parade, New Orleans, 1958, gelatin silver print
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Ralston Crawford, Tuxedo Brass Band, New Orleans, 1959, gelatin silver print
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Ralston Crawford, Emile Barnes’s Louisiana Joymakers, 1950, gelatin silver print.
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Ralston Crawford, John “Papa” Joseph, Outside Barbershop, New Orleans, 1958, gelatin silver print
NELSON-ATKINS MUSEUM, GIFT OF NEELON CRAWFORD