Exhibition History"Selected Cowles Family Gifts to the Permanent Collection," Des Moines Art Center, July 30 - Sept. 11, 1994
"Ralston Crawford," organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, N.Y., (circulated to: Whitney Museum of American Art, Oct. 2, 1985 - Feb. 2, 1986; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Apr. 19 - June 1, 1986; Portland Art Museum, OR, July 12 - Aug. 31, 1986; Akron Art Museum, OH, Sept. 19 - Nov. 2, 1986; Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI, Nov. 17, 1986 - Jan. 4, 1987)
Selected Works from the Des Moines Art Center's Permanent Collection," organized and circulated by the Waterloo Municipal Galleries, swponsored by the Nationbal Bank of Waterloo, Painting was not exhibited at the Waterloo Municipal Galleries, (circulated to: Charles H. MacNider Museum, Mason City, Jan. 15 - Feb. 22, 1984; Muscatine Art Center, Apr. 1 - May 13, 1984; Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, May 27 - July 1, 1984; Sioux City Art Center, July 15 - Aug. 26, 1984)
"Director's Choice," Gardner and Florence Call Cowles Foundation, an exhibition of thirty-four works of art purchased with the Director's Discretionary Fund, 1973-1982, Des Moines Art Center, Sept. 13 - Nov. 13, 1983
"Lines of Power," Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc. N.Y., Mar. 12 - Apr. 9, 1977
"Ralston Crawford," by Helman Gallery, St. Louis, May 22 - June 25, 1971
Published ReferencesRichard B. Freeman, RALSTON CRAWFORD, University of Alabama Press, 1953, ill. p.13
Barbara Rose, "Ralston Crawford: American Modernist," in "Ralston Crawford," exh. cat., Helman Gallery, St. Louis, 1971
John Russell, "When the Belief In Technology Was Ironclad," NEW YORK TIMES, Arts and Leisure Section, Mar. 27, 1977, (review by Hirschl & Adler Galleeries' exhibition "Lines of Power")
James H. Maroney, Jr., "Lines of Power," Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., N. Y., 1977, color ill.
DMAC Bulletin, Mar./Apr. 1978 (cover ill.)
DES MOINES REGISTER, article by Nick Baldwin, Mar. 16, 1978, b/w ill.
"Director's Choice," Des Moines Art Center, 1983, b/w ill.
"Selected Works from the Des Moines Art Center's Permanent Collection," Waterloo Municipal Galleries, 1984, exh. cat. no.9
Barbara Haskell, "Ralston Crawford," Whitney Museum of American Art, N. Y., 1985, exh. cat. ref. p.158
DES MOINES ART CENTER: SELECTED PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES AND WORKS ON PAPER, Des Moines Art Center, 1985, ref. & b/w ill. p.55
ARCHI-SCAPES, Calendar, Pomegranate Calendars & Books, Petaluma, CA 94975, 1990, interior, full color ill.
AN UNCOMMON VISION: THE DES MOINES ART CENTER, Des Moines Art Center, 1998, ref. p.91, color ill. p.90
"Letters from John Cowles to His Family, 1943-1976; 1952", Edited by Elizabeth Ballantine, Durango Herald Press, 2005, cover ill.
Canvas (/image): 32 × 40 in. (81.3 × 101.6 cm)
Audio (1)
DSM Speaks Audio Tour with Shane McQuillen, Community Member
Run Time: 1:15
Recorded by Shane McQuillen, CultureALL Community Ambassador / 2022
Shane McQuillen Bio
Shane was born in New Zealand, and worked for a decade in Australian forests. He went back to university as a nontraditional student (or adult student in New Zealand), and graduated in 2013. In 2014 he immigrated to the United States, spending two years working all over Chicago, then coming to Des Moines in 2016. He has two young children and enjoys experiencing Iowa with them and his partner.
DES MOINES SPEAKS
DSM Speaks are short audio reflections on artwork in our permanent collection, written and voiced by diverse members of our community. Contributors to this program were selected in partnership with CultureALL and the Des Moines Art Center. We hope by elevating these diverse ways of seeing we can encourage all visitors to connect more deeply and to see themselves and their identities within our walls.