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| Ralston Crawford Buffalo Grain Elevators 1937 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Ralston Crawford Sanford Tanks #2 1938 watercolor and ink on paper Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Peter Juley Ralston Crawford ca. 1944 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Ralston Crawford New Orleans #8 ca. 1950 lithograph Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Ralston Crawford Cologne Landscape #6 1951 lithograph Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Ralston Crawford Cologne #1 1952 gouache on paper Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Ralston Crawford Harbor Scene 1952 gouache on paper Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Ralston Crawford Third Avenue Elevated 1952 gouache on paper Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Ralston Crawford Shaw's Propeller 1953 drawing Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Ralston Crawford New Orleans Cemetery 1953 gouache on paper Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Ralston Crawford First Avenue #3 1954-56 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Ralston Crawford Girod Cemetery, New Orleans 1956 gelatin silver print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Ralston Crawford Third Avenue Elevated #3 1956 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Ralston Crawford Seville 1957 lithograph Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Ralston Crawford 1961 Number 3 1961 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Ralston Crawford Torn Signs #2 1967-68 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Ralston Crawford Los Penitentes 1973 gouache on paper Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
from Metamorphoses
Not distant far from thence a murmuring sound
Of water issu'd from a Cave and spred
Into a liquid Plain, then stood unmov'd
Pure as th' Expanse of Heav'n; I thither went
With unexperienc't thought, and laid me downe
On the green bank, to look into the clear
On the green bank, to look into the clear
Smooth Lake, that to me seemed another Skie.
As I bent down to look, just opposite,
A Shape within the watry gleam appear'd
Bending to look on me, I started back,
It started back, but pleas'd I soon returned,
Pleas'd it returnd as soon with answering looks
Of sympathie and love; there I had fixt
Mine eyes till now, and pined with vain desire.
– Ovid (43 BC-AD 17), adapted by John Milton (1667)
(Eve in Paradise Lost here echoing Ovid's Narcissus in the Metamorphoses)