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The third-longest suspension bridge in the United States - as seen from Mackinac Island - some five miles away. Near sunset. One cloud. Simple.
These flowers caught my eye; they were actually buried deep in a bush, and there were probably only 8 or 9 flowers on the bush in total. I would hypothesize that the bush doesn't need to germinate very often, since it hardly had any flowers; maybe it is not a deciduous bush.
i'm taking leo and courtney's "clutterfat" challenge. i packed up all the toys today and put them in large leaf bags and will sort through at my leisure. looking forward to having LESS of everything.
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this is our "catch all" storage area, rarely clean. the cupboards are full of fabric and seasonal items.
Trying out a few different ways of lighting with a single light. Was going for Rembrant lighting but I never really got "the triangle" without extremely contrasty shadows. I'll have to keep playing
Also used Topaz Adjust's "Simplify" on this one.
Ralston Crawford, Born St. Catharines, ON, Canada 1906-
died Houston, TX 1978
Buffalo Grain Elevators, 1937, oil on canvas, 40 1⁄4 x 50 1⁄4 in.
Beginning in the 1860s, vast reserves of Midwestern grain were shipped across the Great Lakes to Buffalo, where as many as 280 million bushels a year were stored and milled. Crawford intensified the monumental scale and severe beauty of the storehouses by simplifying what he saw into abstract forms. The solid blue tone of the sky becomes a shape all its own, interlocking with the silhouettes of roofs and elevators.
But this painting is more than an artist's exercise. Crawford grew up in the city and shipped aboard Great Lakes freighters with his father. In the late 1930s, Buffalo began to lose its central position in the grain business when Ontario's Welland Canal opened, providing cheaper freight routes to the East Coast. Crawford used chilly colors and raking light to suggest an industrial complex frozen in silence, signaling the end of an era in his hometown.
Born 25 September 1906, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. 1926–27, sailed on tramp steamers to Caribbean, Central America, California, New Orleans. Studied at Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles. Worked in Walt Disney's studio. 1927–30, studied at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pa. 1932–33, to Europe, where he studied in Paris at Académie Colorossi and Académie Scandinave; toured Spain, Italy, Balearic Islands. 1933, studied at Columbia University.
1934, first one-man show, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore. Taught at Art Academy of Cincinnati, 1940–41 and 1949; Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 1942; Brooklyn Museum School, 1948–49. 1950–68, made many trips to New Orleans to photograph musical life of the city. 1952–57, taught at New School for Social Research, New York. 1953, retrospective exhibition, University of Alabama; visiting artist, University of Michigan.
1954–55, traveled in France and Spain. 1958, retrospective exhibition, Milwaukee Art Center; visiting artist, University of Colorado. Exhibited lithographs in London. Taught at Hofstra College, 1960–62. Photographic research consultant, Tulane University, Archive of New Orleans Jazz, 1961. 1961–62, retrospective exhibition of lithographs, University of Kentucky. 1963–73, traveled widely in Europe, Caribbean, and U.S. Died 27 April 1978, Houston, Tex.
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