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Unique Selling Points:
. Offers new perspectives on the American artist Ralston Crawford, focusing on two related series of works from his later life
. With contributions from experts on American modernism and Crawford scholars, including his son John
. Includes reproductions of pages from Crawford's sketchbooks, providing insight into his remarkable visual memory and his thoughts on drawing, writing and other subjects
. Features a detailed chronology of Crawford's life
. Accompanies an exhibition at the Vilcek Foundation in New York
Aimed At:
. Anyone interested in 20th-century American art
. Art history students, especially those studying American modernism
About the author
William C. Agee is the Evelyn Kranes Kossak Professor Emeritus of Art History at Hunter College, City University of New York. He was formerly Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Pasadena Art Museum, and in 2011 a Fellow at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Among his many publications are works on Synchromism, painting and sculpture of the 1930s, Ralston Crawford, Stuart Davis, Arthur Dove, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Donald Judd and Morton Livingston Schamberg. His most recent book is Modern Art in America, 1908-68 (Phaidon, 2016).
