Flight Pattern

Artist Keith Crown (1918 - 2010)

Date1980s

MediumWatercolor on paper

Dimensions30 x 22 1/2 in. (76.2 x 57.2 cm)

ClassificationsPainting

Credit LineGift of the Hilbert Collection

Object number2018.124

DescriptionIowa-born Keith Crown became a leading abstractionist in Southern California following World War II. His primary medium was watercolor, and he served on the board of directors of the California Water Color Society. He attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1936-1940, receiving his BFA in 1946. During World War II, he was an official military artist who served as a field correspondent for Yank magazine. In 1946, Crown joined the faculty at the University of Southern California as an instructor of art. In 1947, he had his first one-man show at the M.H. DeYoung Museum in San Francisco. Throughout his teaching career Crown served as a visiting professor at many universities in the United States and Canada. This painting of Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is indicative of the artist’s imaginative use of colorful semi-abstraction to portray real-life scenes that he often painted on-site.

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