{"data":{"id":"2238","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":2238,"topgoose_id":16173,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":2238,"title":"Third Avenue Elevated","display_artist_text":"Ralston Crawford","display_date":"1949","accession_number":"88.52","dimensions":"Sheet: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)\r\nImage: 9 1/2 × 6 1/2 in. (24.1 × 16.5 cm)","medium":"Gelatin silver print","department":"collection","classification":"Photographs","credit_line":"Gift of Robert F. Crawford","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":null,"publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eRalston Crawford, \u003cem\u003eThird Avenue Elevated\u003c/em\u003e, 1949. Gelatin silver print, sheet: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)\r\nImage: 9 1/2 × 6 1/2 in. (24.1 × 16.5 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Robert F. Crawford 88.52. © Ralston Crawford Estate / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003eIn addition to his Precisionist paintings of modern architectural and industrial structures, Ralston Crawford often produced photographs of these subjects. In \u003ci\u003eThird Avenue Elevated\u003c/i\u003e, as in many of his photographs, Crawford sought to compress space and reveal the geometries of a specific site—here, the painted supports of an elevated train in New York and the endless permutations of light and shadow playing across the structure. As was his common practice, Crawford later translated the subject and composition of this photograph into a range of media, including drawing, painting, and the lithograph, \u003ci\u003eThird Avenue Elevated #1\u003c/i\u003e (1951). Yet he never doubted that his photographs were valid aesthetic statements in their own right.\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"Close-up of a riveted steel support column painted with white stripe under an elevated train.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T17:30:42.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T12:01:13.299-05:00","images":[{"id":93852,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/2238/88_52_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"301","type":"artist"}]}}}}