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Madonna of Dudley Station (Curve in the Tracks). Number 4 from the series Madonnas of Transportation
Allan Rohan Crite (American, 1910–2007)
1987
Medium/Technique
Offset lithograph
Dimensions
Image: 26.4 x 40.4cm (10 3/8 x 15 7/8in.)
Sheet: 27.9 x 43.2 cm (11 x 17 in.)
Sheet: 27.9 x 43.2 cm (11 x 17 in.)
Credit Line
The Living New England Artist Purchase Fund, created by The Stephen and Sybil Stone Foundation
Accession Number2002.329
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsContemporary Art, Americas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Allan Rohan Crite, an SMFA graduate from the 1930s, has lived in Boston's South End for nine decades and is that neighborhood's greatest chronicler of African-American life. Two major themes have dominated the artist's long career: everyday depictions of the African-American community, and Biblical illustrations with black protagonists. He often combined the two, as in his 1946 painting Madonna of the Subway, which imagines a black Virgin Mary and Christ Child riding the Orange Line. Crite revisited the subject forty years later in this series of thirteen superbly drawn lithographs.
ProvenanceAllan Rohan Crite and Jackie Cox-Crite, Boston, MA; sold by Allan Rohan Crite and Jackie Cox-Crite to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 25, 2002)