Allan Rohan Crite: Urban Glory
The crossroads of humanity and holiness meet in the works of lifelong Bostonian Allan Rohan Crite (1910–2007), whose works will at long last be at the center of an exhibition in a major Boston museum. Presented in collaboration with the Boston Athenaeum, Allan Rohan Crite: Urban Glory will raise questions of whose legacy is preserved and what stories a metropolis reveals—and pay homage to a seminal African American artist whose work celebrated, recorded, and spoke to Boston’s Black community.
This exhibition, presented in Hostetter Gallery, will be accompanied by:
Visions of Black Madonnas | Fenway Gallery
Robert Freeman: Allan Crite - American Griot, 2025 | Anne H. Fitzpatrick Façade
Image Credits
Allan Rohan Crite (American, 1910 – 2007), Parade on Hammond Street, June 1935. Oil on canvas board, 45.7 x 61 cm (18 x 24 in.) The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, Acquired 1942 (0351). Courtesy of the Allan Rohan Crite Research Institute and Library
Allan Rohan Crite: Urban Glory and Visions of Black Madonnas are supported in part by Barbara and Amos Hostetter, the Barr Foundation, the Henry Luce Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Wyeth Foundation for American Art, The Tom and Katherine Stemberg Fund for Exhibitions and Programs, Fredericka and Howard Stevenson, and by an endowment grant from the Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Robert Freeman: Allan Crite - American Griot, 2025 is supported in part by Barbara and Amos Hostetter, the Barr Foundation, the Henry Luce Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Barbara Lee Program Fund, The Tom and Katherine Stemberg Fund for Exhibitions and Programs, and Fredericka and Howard Stevenson.
The Artist-in-Residence program is supported in part by Lizbeth and George Krupp and directed by Pieranna Cavalchini, Tom and Lisa Blumenthal Curator of Contemporary Art. Funding is also provided for site-specific installations of new work on the Anne H. Fitzpatrick Façade on Evans Way.
The Museum receives operating support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, which is supported by the state of Massachusetts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
