Ralston Crawford

(Pamplona, 1970)
1970

A black and white collage featuring various images including a close-up of a cluster of garlic bulbs, a torn poster with a smiling woman's face, and fragments of other posters with figures in costumes and text in a foreign language. The overall composition has a gritty, textured appearance with layers of torn paper and exposed surfaces.
A black and white collage featuring various images including a close-up of a cluster of garlic bulbs, a torn poster with a smiling woman's face, and fragments of other posters with figures in costumes and text in a foreign language. The overall composition has a gritty, textured appearance with layers of torn paper and exposed surfaces.

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Date
1970

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 11 × 13 15/16in. (27.9 × 35.4 cm) Image: 9 1/4 × 13 1/2in. (23.5 × 34.3 cm)

Accession number
2008.323

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Jointly owned by the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Gift of John Crawford

Rights and reproductions
© Ralston Crawford Estate / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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