Feast of the Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary [graphic] / Allan Rohan Crite. August 15, 1940.

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Feast of the Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary [graphic] / Allan Rohan Crite. August 15, 1940.

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A nun is depicted standing before a small statue of a Madonna and child in a cobblestone alleyway. A graphite inscription on the verso identifies the place as "[t]he Garden at St. Ann[e]'s House / in back of St. John the Evangelist / Church / Beacon Hill, Boston." St. Anne's House was located at 44 Temple St.

1 drawing : watercolor with black ink and white gouache over graphite ; 39 x 29 cm.

Boston Athenaeum

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Crite, Allan Rohan, 1910-2007

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The sketchbook was produced during a residency at the Museum of Afro-American History in Boston, Mass. From the description of An artist's sketchbook of the South End [graphic] : a walking tour about black people / Allan Rohan Crite. 1977. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 44996367 Painter and illustrator, of Boston, Mass.; b. in Plainfield, N.J.; the Circuit Case Extension Cooperative, founded 1937, was a project bringing original art and cultural material to southern...