Untitled (Chicago Shoe Repairing)
- Date
- 1952
- Material
- Gelatin silver print
- photographed in
- New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Photographs
- Collection
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- image: 6 11/16 × 9 9/16 in. (17 × 24.3 cm)
sheet: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
framed: 15 3/8 × 20 3/8 in. (39.1 × 51.8 cm) - Credit Line
- Partial gift of John C. Crawford and funds given by donors to the Art Enrichment Fund
- Rights
- © 2020 Estate of Ralston Crawford / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
- Object Number
- 51:2010
NOTES
This image depicts a Creole cottage in the New Orleans French Quarter—a building type that was common along the Gulf Coast in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Though based in New York, Ralston Crawford spent a great deal of time in New Orleans photographing its distinctive architecture. In his focus on the dilapidated facade seen here, Crawford created a tightly knit composition; the deep shadows from the midday sun animate the scene. They produce rhythms of surface and void—rhythms that he regarded as visual counterparts to the improvisational jazz music in New Orleans that he admired.
Provenance
- 1978
Ralston Crawford (1906-1978), New York, NY
1978 - 2010
John Crawford, New York, NY, by inheritance [1]
2010 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, partial gift and purchase from John Crawford [2]
Notes:
[1] In an e-mail correspondence between John Crawford and Eric Lutz dated April 28, 2010, John Crawford indicated that he inherited the material upon his father's death in 1978 [SLAM document files].
[2] Invoice dated June 14, 2010 [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Collections Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, June 29, 2010, and Minutes of the Special Phone Meeting of the Collections Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, July 15, 2010.
Ralston Crawford (1906-1978), New York, NY
1978 - 2010
John Crawford, New York, NY, by inheritance [1]
2010 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, partial gift and purchase from John Crawford [2]
Notes:
[1] In an e-mail correspondence between John Crawford and Eric Lutz dated April 28, 2010, John Crawford indicated that he inherited the material upon his father's death in 1978 [SLAM document files].
[2] Invoice dated June 14, 2010 [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Collections Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, June 29, 2010, and Minutes of the Special Phone Meeting of the Collections Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, July 15, 2010.
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