Harry Crotty

American
(1917–1968)

Of the Sea #4
1961

Metal, fiberglass and resin
39 x 88 x 17.5 in.
Gift of the Crotty Family
2019.13

Harry Crotty was a post war Bay Area artist and teacher with a primary focus on sculpture. Crotty attended California College of Arts and Crafts (now California College of the Arts) and received an MFA in 1950 after serving in World War II where he was wounded in the jungles of New Guinea. He taught at CCAC for two years (1950-1952) after graduating then took a position at College of Marin (1952-1968), which he held until his untimely death. Crotty’s sculptures suggest abstracted figures and biomorphic forms. Many of his works employed movement in the form of stabiles and mobiles. An avid fisherman, summers were spent along the Mendocino coast heavily influencing his sculptures that sometimes would look like bleached bones washed up on the beach.

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This object was included in the following exhibitions:

• San Francisco: The Golden Age 1930-1960 , 6/18/2024 - 6/30/2025

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