Fall 2025 Exhibitions
Friends of Fenway Court Patron Preview
Allan Rohan Crite: Urban Glory; Visions of Black Madonnas; and Robert T. Freeman: Allan Crite - American Griot, 2025
Tuesday
October 21, 2025
6:30 - 9 pm
For the first time, Boston artist Allan Rohan Crite, whose work recorded and glorified the city’s Black communities and changing multicultural neighborhoods, will be celebrated in a comprehensive career-spanning show at one of his favorite hometown museums. Presented in collaboration with the Boston Athenaeum, Allan Rohan Crite: Urban Glory is a triumphant tribute to a quietly radical artist that gives everyone the opportunity to see their own humanity made sacred.
THE EVENING WILL INCLUDE
Remarks by Peggy Fogelman
Norma Jean Calderwood Director
Curatorial insights from Diana Greenwald
William and Lia Poorvu Curator of the Collections
and
Theodore C. Landsmark
Distinguished Professor, Northeastern University
Performance by Reginald Mobley, countertenor
Cocktails and light bites
Space is limited.
Please reply by October 7 to patrons@isgm.org or 617 264 6045.
Valet parking is available for a fee.
This reception is a benefit of the Friends of Fenway Court Patron Program. To learn more about the program and its year-round engagement opportunities, please click here.
Allan Rohan Crite (American, 1910–2007), Parade on Hammond Street, June 1935. Oil on canvas board. 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 Abrams Foundation, 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 T. Freeman: Allan Crite - American Griot, 2025 is supported in part by Barbara and Amos Hostetter, the Abrams Foundation, 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 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts 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.
