Allan Crite
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Allan Rohan Crite was a Boston-based African American artist. He won several honors, such as the 350th Harvard University Anniversary Medal.
Allan Crite, School's Out (1936), Federal Art Project
Douglass Square, Boston, by Allan Crite. Oil. 20" x 24". 1936, Federal Art Project
Spirituals
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Spirituals is a genre of Christian music that is associated with African Americans, which merged varied African cultural influences with the experiences of being held in bondage in slavery, at first d
Allan Crite
…fall into two categories: religious themes and general African-American experiences, with some reviewers adding a third category for work depicting Negro spirituals. Spirituals, he believed, expressed a certain humanity. Crite was a devout Episcopalian, and his religion inspired many of his works. His 1946 painting…
Engraving of Douglass from his 1845 narrative
Portrait of James Weldon Johnson in 1932
Fisk Jubilee Singers, 1875
Photograph of Harry T. Burleigh, 1936