P2001.17: Support for the Third Avenue Elevated
PhotographsAt center in the extreme foreground, two parallel steel beams fill the view from top to bottom. They are joined by narrow, alternating diagonal struts between them that allow triangular views of the space beyond the support. The beams and struts have been painted in alternating dark and light colored blocks, starting at the bottom with an area of dark paint on the two beams and the diagonal in between forming a backwards “N” shape. A light “N” above this is followed by another dark backwards “N”. In the background at top, the bridge it is supporting and street traffic can be seen receding into the distance.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- P2001.17
- People
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Ralston Crawford, American (St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada 1906 - 1978 Houston, Texas)
- Title
- Support for the Third Avenue Elevated
- Classification
- Photographs
- Work Type
- photograph
- Date
- 1949
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States, New York State, New York City
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/167278
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
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image: 34.3 x 23.1 cm (13 1/2 x 9 1/8 in.)
sheet: 35.4 x 27.9 cm (13 15/16 x 11 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: verso, bottom left, graphite: Sheldon?
- inscription: verso, bottom right, graphite: #932 JC
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inscription: verso, bottom left quadrant, black ink, signed, in artist's hand: REPRODUCTION
FORBIDDEN
"SUPPORT
FOR THE THIRD AVENUE
ELEVATED"
Ralston Crawford
3 x 7 - inscription: verso, center, graphite: 1972 (encircled)
- inscription: verso, center, graphite: 3 x 7
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Richard and Ronay Menschel
- Copyright
- © Ralston Crawford Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Accession Year
- 2001
- Object Number
- P2001.17
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Zabriskie Gallery, Six American Painters and the Photograph, brochure (New York, NY, 2001), repr.
Exhibition History
- Six American Painters and the Photograph, Zabriskie Gallery, New York, 01/30/2001 - 03/17/2001
- HAA 10 Survey Course: The Western Tradition, Art Since the Renaissance, Fogg Museum, Cambridge, 03/08/2008 - 04/06/2008
- 32Q: 1110 , Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/06/2016 - 10/13/2016
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