Loading the truck with clay [graphic] / Allan Rohan Crite. Jan. 1940.

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Loading the truck with clay [graphic] / Allan Rohan Crite. Jan. 1940.

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A steam shovel is depicted lifting dirt from a pit. In the background are city buildings. Signage on the steam shovel reads "C J Maney Co. Inc.," a Somerville construction firm. Ink insription on verso identifies theimage as "View looking toward Kendall St. between Shawmut Ave. and Tremont St., Rx." Although the artist locates Kendall St. in Roxbury, the site is technically in Boston's South End. This is one of a group of watercolors by Crite depicting the urban renewal project in the South End.

1 drawing : watercolor, black ink, and white highlights ; 39 x 28 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...

C.J. Maney Co. Inc.

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