American art underwent a transformation during the period 1940 55 and nowhere is that change better exemplified than in the work of Ralston Crawford 1906 1978. Crawford worked in a variety of media throughout his career and his wartime and early postwar art ranged from designing camouflage and creating weather infographics for the US Army to documenting the detonation of the atomic bomb for Fortune magazine. This exciting new book explores Crawfords influences and the ideas and experiences he ha