Art curator, university professor, editor. Born– October 7, 1908, Philadelphia. Parents– Walter Jackson and Corinne (Keen) Freeman. Married– Barbara Ames Burditt, 1937.  Children– Three. Education– Yale University, A.B., 1932; Harvard University, M.A., 1934. Employed by the Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, Mo., 1934-1936; Fogg Museum of Art, Cambridge, Mass., 1936-1938; Cincinnati Art Museum, 1938-1941; Flint Institute of Art, Flint, Mich., 1941-1947; San Francisco Museum of Art, 1947-1950; professor and head of Art Department, University of Alabama, 1950-1956; Hamilton College, 1956-1958; University of Kentucky, 1958-1975. Edited the Cincinnati Art Museum Bulletin, 1938-1951. Member American Federation of Arts, College Art Association, AAUP,  Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen, Southeastern College Art Conference, Midwestern College Art Association.  Member Flint Michigan Board of Education, 1945-47. Named a fellow of the University of Kentucky. Awarded status of professor emeritus on his retirement  at the University of Kentucky, 1975. Died October 31, 1986.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online

Publication(s):

The Lithographs of Ralston Crawford. Lexington, Ky.; University of Kentucky Press, 1962.

Niles Spencer. Lexington, Ky.; Art Department, University of Kentucky, 1965.

Picasso-Grio-Miro. San Francisco; San Francisco Museum of Art, 1948.

Ralston Crawford. University, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1953.

The Prints of Ralston Crawford.  Print Review, 1985.

Editor;

Graphics ’73: Ralston Crawford.  University of Kentucky, 1973.

Graphics ’74:  Spain.  University of Kentucky, 1974.

Graphics ’75: Watergate:The Unmaking of a President.  University of Kentucky, 1975.

Graphics ’76: Britain.  University of Kentucky, 1976.

Joint_Editor:

Best Political Cartoons of 1978.  Puck Press, 1979.