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ID: 500000551
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500000551

 

Record Type: Person
Crite, Allan Rohan (American painter, illustrator, 1910-2007)

Note: Noted for book illustrations and paintings having religious themes, llustrations of Negro spirituals, and genre scenes of African-American life.

Names:
Crite, Allan Rohan (preferred,V,index,LC,English-P,NA,U)
Allan Rohan Crite (V,display)
Crite, Allan (V)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)
African American
Episcopal

Roles:
artist (preferred)
painter
illustrator
author
genre artist
religious artist
printmaker

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  North Plainfield (Somerset county, New Jersey, United States) (inhabited place)
Died:  Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts, United States) (inhabited place)

Events:
active:   Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts, United States) (inhabited place)
awarded:   350th Harvard University Anniversary Medal
active:   United States (North and Central America) (nation)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
associated with ....  Harvard University  
............................  (American repository, Cambridge, contemporary) [500312819]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Crite, Allan Rohan (I)

Biographies:
(American painter, illustrator, 1910-2007) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American painter, illustrator, b.1910) ..... [BHA]
(American painter b.1910) ..... [GRLPA]
(artist, 1910-2007) ..... [GRL]
(painter, 1910-2007, active United States (North and Central America)) ..... [GRL]
(American artist, 1910-2007) ..... [MoMA]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Allan Rohan Crite ........ [GRL, MoMA, VP]
...................................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
...................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
...................................  GRIL NACO contribution (n.d.)
Crite, Allan ........ [GRLPA]
..........................  GCRC
Crite, Allan Rohan ........ [BHA Preferred, GRL Preferred, GRLPA Preferred, MoMA Preferred, VP Preferred]
.....................................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
.....................................  Driskell, Two centuries of black American art (1976) 172
.....................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules 1311
.....................................  GRIL NACO contribution (n.d.)
.....................................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) nr 95026301
.....................................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) NAFR9526301
.....................................  RILA/BHA (1975-2000)

Subject: ........ [BHA, Gallery Systems, GRL, GRLPA, MoMA, VP]
....................  African American National Biography, accessed December 8, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Crite, Allan Rohan; painter, printmaker; born 20 March 1910 in Plainfield, New Jersey, United States; attended the Boston School of the Museum of Fine Arts on scholarship; earned a B.A. degree from the Harvard University Extension School; Suffolk University awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1979; became one of the few African Americans hired as artists by the Roosevelt Administration's New Deal during the Great Depression; enjoyed a brief tenure in 1934 on the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP); participated in the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project in 1936; designed a large mural for St. Augustine's Church in Brooklyn; accepted a job as an engineering draftsman with the Boston Naval Shipyard; died 06 September 2007 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States)
....................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-) http://www.moma.org/collection/artists/1311
....................  Driskell, David C. Two centuries of black American art, 1976: p.172 (Crite, Allan Rohan; painter, illustrator; b. New Jersey 1910)
....................  Driskell, Two centuries of black American art (1976) p. 172
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: nr95026301
....................  GCRC
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules 1311
....................  GRIL NACO contribution (n.d.)
....................  Harvard University gazette, Sept. 20/26, 2007: p. 14 (Allan Rohan Crite; d. Sept. 6 [2007])
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: nr95026301
....................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) NAFR9526301; http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr95026301
....................  RILA/BHA (1975-2000)
....................  SNAC: Social Networks and Archival Context [online] (2018-) 9064633
....................  VIAF: Virtual International Authority File [online] (2009-) 63899044
....................  Who's Who in American Art (1936-)
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q365304
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
.......... Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [online] (2002)
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