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Earl Stetson Crawford (1877-1966),
painter, printmaker, muralist and illustrator, was born in Philadelphia on June
5, 1877, the grandson of the hat-maker, John B. Stetson. He studied at the School of Industrial Art in
Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and in Paris at Académie
Julian, École des Beaux-Arts, Académie Delécluse, and Académie Carmen, where he
was a student of James McNeill Whistler. He also received training in Munich,
London, Rome, Florence, and Venice. Crawford taught at the School of Applied Design
for Women in New York between 1912 and 1917. He had studios in New York and
Nutley, New Jersey in the early years of his career.
After serving in World War I,
Crawford and his wife, Brenetta Bimm Herrman, moved to southern France in 1923.
They were forced to return to the United States in the 1930s due to the
outbreak of World War II. Crawford then moved to California where he
established himself in Pasadena and devoted himself to printmaking.
Crawford was a member of the
American Art Association of Paris, the Society of Illustrators, the Artist Fund
Society, the Société des Arts et Lettres, Associe de la Société Nationale des
Beaux-Arts, and the Société des
Graveurs. His work is represented in the collections of the New York Public
Library; Rijks Museum, Amsterdam; Christchurch Museum, New Zealand; Smithsonian
American Art Museum; and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Earl Stetson Crawford died in
Pasadena, California on September 13, 1966.
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- Condition:
- Used
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- Condition Notes:
- In good condition (the print is creased in several places).
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