Ralston Crawford: Painting and Visual Experience OOP Though he is perhaps best

Though he is perhaps best known for his controversial "sacred subjects" in which he posed himself as Jesus Christ

The figures' relationship to the horizon line shifts within a single drawing

68 four-color plates

soldiers home on leave

The film director's debut collection of portrait-photographs

Ralston Crawford: Painting and Visual Experience OOP Though he is perhaps bestEdited by William C. Agee Ralston Crawford has been most closely identified with Precisionism. His Paintings of the thirties rank among the best produced by any of the Precisionists. Yet his Precisionist painting occupied him for less than ten years. By 1944 his art had undergone a profound shift and expansion of style and range of feeling, and his work in painting, lithography, drawing, watercolor, etching, photography, motion pictures and sound