Esther Crawford Early Ca 1933 Oil Painting

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Vintage oil painting on canvas by noted early California artist, Esther Crawford. Image size 25 x 30, signed and dated … more Vintage oil painting on canvas by noted early California artist, Esther Crawford. Image size 25 x 30, signed and dated lower right.

Crawford attended the Cincinnati Art Academy from 1894-1898 under Lewis H. Meakin, Thomas Noble, and Joseph H. Sharp.

In 1900 she studied in Paris with James Whistler. Crawford also spent time at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in 1901, and the South Kensington School of Design in London. She studied with Bror Nordfeldt in Chicago, and with Alphonse Mucha, Arthur W. Dow and Otto Walter Beck. Esther Crawford also studied in Japan during a 1922 trip.

Crawford lived briefly in New York, Chicago and Jacksonville, Illinois, and in 1908, taught at the University of Chicago. She also to Japan and China before settling in southern California. In 1911 she took a position in the art department of the State Normal School, now UCLA.

Esther Crawford was primarily an oil painter and block printer of scenes in California, Arizona and New Mexico.

Her exhibitions included the Society of Western Artists, Detroit; California-Panama Exposition, San Diego; California Art Club, Los Angeles; Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe; and the Art Institute of Chicago. less