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Ellen Wilt & Alice Crawford

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Ellen Wilt & Alice Crawford
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Ellen Wilt, American, 1921-2020 & Alice Crawford, American, 1929-2010. A 1960s collaborative oil on canvas landscape with impasto. Signed "Crawford-Wilt" lower right. Image 70 7/8 x 71 3/8" high, in brushed chrome frame, 73 3/8 x 73 7/8" high overall.

x 71 3/8" high, in a silver metal frame 73 3/8 x 73 7/8" high overall. 70 7/8

This painting is pictured with a MidCentury George Nelson for Herman Miller slat bench with ebonized base, which is available for $1650. The bench comes with the original Herman Miller receipt and measures 102" long x 14" high x 18 1/2" deep. It is available for purchase, message with inquiries.

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Ellen Wilt Biography:

Born in 1921 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Ellen was a prolific artist, educator, and supporter of social causes for her entire life. She exhibited her art in hundreds of shows, and served as a teacher, educator, and mentor to thousands of people throughout her career. She grew up during the depression, and that experience, along with her parents' professions as social workers led her to support social causes. At a summer art school in 1940, she met her future husband, Richard Wilt, whom she married in 1943, settling in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1947. In 1967, at the age of 45, she headed back to school to take art classes, getting a BA in 1968 and a Master of Art in 1970 from the University of Michigan. She then taught art at Eastern Michigan University beginning in 1968, becoming an emeritus professor on her retirement in 1985.
Alice Crawford Biography:

Alice Crawford, born in 1929, was a Michigan artist, muralist, set designer and teacher. Known as Ann Arbor’s best set designer, Crawford attended Oberlin College from 1946-1949 before transferring to Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, where she received her BA in art. She joined the Ann Arbor Civic Theater in 1953 and by 1969 she had designed over 30 theater sets for ACCT, winning awards for “Kiss Me Kate” (1965-1966) and “Finian’s Rainbow” (1968). In the 1950s and 1960s she also designed sets for the University of Michigan, Drama Season, Ann Arbor Recreation Department and the Ypsi Players. In addition to designing sets, she simultaneously lectured at Huron High School, taught art at the YMCA and at the National Music Camp at Interlochen.

Crawford’s painting studio was located on the second floor of the Hutzel building in Ann Arbor, Michigan. There she executed her distinctive oils, watercolors and drawings that were exhibited nationally in Michigan, Ohio, New York, Washington DC, Indiana, and Pennsylvania. She was internationally exhibited in Paris, France and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She was represented by The Lantern Gallery in Ann Arbor, two galleries in Detroit and one in Kalamazoo.
Crawford's paintings were regarded for their muralistic representational quality, which is enriched with an expressive intimacy not found in her set designs.
“Painting is my own thing. To communicate with people, I do sets and teach.”
-Ann Arbor News, March 2nd 1969
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