William Richard Crutchfield
(American, 1932-2015)
Trestle Trains, 1978 (T. 157; WC 5)
lithograph in colors on Arches 88 paper
signed, and dated artist's proof V Richard Crutchfield 1978 , artist's proof # 5/14 (from an edition of 48, plus 14 artist's proofs), published/printed Tyler Graphics Ltd., Mt. Kisco, New York, with their blindstamps
39 5/16 x 55 1/4in (99.9 x 140.3cm)
Provenance:
Property from a Private Beverly Hills Collector.

Literature:K. Tyler, Tyler Graphics: Catalogue Raisonne, 1974-1985, New York: Abbeville Press, 1987, p. 114

Footnote:
Artist William Richard Crutchfield (1932–2015), born in Indianapolis, Indiana, received a traditional studio training at the city’s Herron School of Art and later at Tulane University in New Orleans. His conventional education in the arts may have suited his eye for metronomic movement but perhaps not his prankish sense of humor.
Crutchfield moved to Los Angeles in 1967, settling near the shipyards of San Pedro, amid views of the bustling Port of Los Angeles. This industrial setting provided the artist with plenty of inspiration and subject material for his mechanically derived artworks (the artist once professed that the 1928 transatlantic flight of the Graf Zeppelin was one of his prime spiritual sources). The move also gave him the opportunity to create a more public persona after many years of teaching; that same year, he created a lithographic suite for publisher Gemini G.E.L. in Los Angeles and began regularly exhibiting in galleries.

Edge framed. 39 1/2 x 55 1/2 (100 x 141cm)