Neelon Crawford

Neelon Crawford is an artist in several media living and working in Wyoming. His work in film, still photography, and on on canvas vary widely in their expression but broadly suggest a perspective and a body of subject-matter that draw his attention again and again. An attraction to the extremes of human experience have sent him to Antarctica, the depths of the South American rain forest, and to every other corner of the globe. His quarry has never been the “travel” photograph, but rather the contact point between the universal and the sublime. Ways of seeing fascinate him alongside ways of the spirit, leading him to sometimes take up camera to photograph vast interstellar telescopes, at other times taking up a tape recorder to capture the incantations of a faith-healer. His experimental films of the 1960-80s have been rediscovered and restored for exhibition in 2021 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; photogravures of his 1989 trip to the South Pole are available, and he continues to process the observations of a life spent looking carefully in his studio in Wyoming.

Neelon Crawford, b. 1946

Reconnaissance I, 1987

Photogravure, Edition of 35 plus 10 artist's proofs

Inscribed with edition at lower left; signed at lower right: Neelon Crawford

20 x 16 inches (image)
30 x 22 1/2 inches (sheet)

 

Neelon Crawford, b. 1946

Reconnaissance II, 1987

Photogravure, Edition of 35 plus 10 artist's proofs

Inscribed with edition at lower left; signed at lower right: Neelon Crawford

20 x 16 inches (image)
30 x 22 1/2 inches (sheet)

 

Neelon Crawford, b. 1946

Reconnaissance III, 1987

Photogravure, Edition of 35 plus 10 artist's proofs

Inscribed with edition at lower left; signed at lower right: Neelon Crawford

20 x 16 inches (image)
30 x 22 1/2 inches (sheet)

 

Neelon Crawford, b. 1946

Reconnaissance IV, 1987

Photogravure, Edition of 35 plus 10 artist's proofs

Inscribed with edition at lower left; signed at lower right: Neelon Crawford

20 x 16 inches (image)
30 x 22 1/2 inches (sheet)

 

Neelon Crawford

The Bergs, 1989

Inscribed at lower left: 24/40
Signed at lower right: Neelon Crawford

Photogravure

16 x 20 inches
22 1/2 x 31 inches (sheet)

 

Neelon Crawford

Pearse Valley Glaciers, 1989

Inscribed at lower left: 25/40
Signed at lower right: Neelon Crawford

Photogravure

16 x 20 in
22 1/2 x 31 inches (sheet)

 

Neelon Crawford

Pancake Ice, 1989

Inscribed at lower left: 23/40
Signed at lower right: Neelon Crawford

Photogravure

20 x 16 in
22 1/2 x 31 inches (sheet)

Edition of 40

 

Neelon Crawford

Taylor Glacier, 1989

Inscribed at lower left: 22/40
Signed at lower right: Neelon Crawford

Photogravure

16 x 20 in
22 1/2 x 31 inches (sheet)

 

Neelon Crawford

Mt. Erebus, 1989

Inscribed at lower left: 24/40
Signed at lower right: Neelon Crawford

Photogravure

16 x 20 in
22 1/2 x 31 inches (sheet)

 

Neelon Crawford

Fractured Sea Ice, 1989

Inscribed at lower left: 23/40
Signed at lower right: Neelon Crawford

Photogravure

16 x 20 in
22 1/2 x 31 inches (sheet)

 

Neelon Crawford

Antarctic Glaciers No. 2, 1989

Inscribed at lower left: 23/40
Signed at lower right: Neelon Crawford

Photogravure

16 x 20 in
22 1/2 x 31 inches (sheet)

 

Neelon Crawford

Sun Through Pass, 1989

Inscribed at lower left: 23/40
Signed at lower right: Neelon Crawford

Photogravure

16 x 20 in
22 1/2 x 31 inches (sheet)

 

Neelon Crawford

USCGC Polar Sea, 1989

Inscribed at lower left: 22/40
Signed at lower right: Neelon Crawford

Photogravure

16 x 20 in
22 1/2 x 31 inches (sheet)

 

Neelon Crawford

Windless Bight, 1989

Photogravure

16 x 20 inches
22 1/2 x 31 inches (sheet)

Edition of 40

 

Neelon Crawford

Amundsen-Scot Station, South Pole, 1989

Photogravure

16 x 20 inches

 

Neelon Crawford

LC-130 at South Pole, 1989

Inscribed at lower left: 24/40
Signed at lower right: Neelon Crawford

Photogravure

16 x 20 inches
22 1/2 x 31 inches (sheet)