Untitled

Untitled

Ralston Crawford

1951

ink

From the collection of Museum of Modern Art

About this work

This painting is made of bold blocks of color. Black shapes float against a blue background, some jagged, others smooth. Yellow stripes cut across the scene, framing the black forms like borders. The right side has star-like bursts in black, standing out against the yellow. The artist used a printing method called lithography, where the image is drawn directly on a flat stone or metal plate. This lets them create sharp lines and flat colors like these. Try looking up lithography to see how it works.

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