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Although Duncan Phillips appreciated precisionism as a movement uniquely American, he was not emotionally drawn to it. He failed to appreciate the precisionists' view of industrial subjects as symbols of order and reason and as part of America's cultural heritage. However, he believed that Crawford had great potential as an artist, and purchased Boat and Grain Elevators, No. 2 for his "encouragement collection" of work by developing artists; but by the late fifties he considered it part of the permanent collection. During this decade, Phillips gained renewed interest in Crawford's work, purchasing three lithographs from his mature period.
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