Boxcars, Minneapolis #2
- Date
- 1949–61
- Material
- Oil on canvas
- Classification
- Paintings
- Collection
- American Art
- Current Location
- On View, Gallery 333
- Dimensions
- 60 × 40 in. (152.4 × 101.6 cm)
framed (sight): 68 × 48 in. (172.7 × 121.9 cm) - Credit Line
- Museum deaccession funds, and bequest of Friederike Gottfried, Mrs. Martha C. Burbach, Professor Halsey C. Ives, Helen K. Baer, Mrs. Madge V. Goodrich, gift of the Honorable and Mrs. Thomas F. Eagleton, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley J. Goodman, Mrs. Richard Meade in memory of her husband, Richard Worsam Meade IV, an anonymous donor, Miss Antoinette Dames, and Museum Purchase, by exchange
- Rights
- © 2020 Estate of Ralston Crawford / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
- Object Number
- 2:2010
NOTES
Shapes advance and recede simultaneously in this painting, sometimes overlapping, and sometimes reinforcing each other. Ralston Crawford's boxcar paintings are derived from photographs. The forms depicted in the photographs, however, have been analyzed and broken apart. As Crawford remarked, "I don't feel obligated to reveal the forms. They may be totally absent to the viewer of the work . . . but what is there, however abstract, grows out of something I have seen."
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