Allan Rohan Crite papers
name: label: Creator
content: Crite, Allan Rohan (1910-2007)
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Massachusetts -- Boston
label: Occupation
content: Printmakers -- Massachusetts -- Boston
label: Topic
content: Genre painting -- 20th century -- United States
label: Topic
content: Christian art and symbolism
label: Topic
content: African American artists
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming, 1986, by the Afro-American Cultural Museum, Philadelpia, Pa, which received the papers from Crite.
creator: label: Creator
content: Crite, Allan Rohan (1910-2007)
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Allan Rohan Crite (1910-2007) was an African American painter and printmaker in Boston, Massachusetts. He studied at Boston University, the Massachusetts School of Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School, and Harvard University. Crite is best known for his religious illustrations, but also chronicled African American life in Boston in the 1930s-1940s. During the Depression, Crite developed a series of "neighborhood paintings" insprired by Boston's African American community.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Microfilm reels
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1930-1982
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.critalla
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Microfilm reels
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 3911-3912 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Reels 3911-3912: Originals in: Afro-American Historical & Cultural Museum.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This microfilm of the papers of African American painter Allan Rohan Crite consists of correspondence; biographical material; writings, including lecture transcripts; photocopies of print series with explanatory matter; clippings; photographs; and All Glory, a publication by Crite.