410 Columbus Avenue (from the series An Artist's Sketchbook of the South End—A Walking Tour about Black People)

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410 Columbus Avenue (from the series An Artist's Sketchbook of the South End—A Walking Tour about Black People)

Allan Rohan Crite (American, 1910–2007)

1977

Medium/Technique Offset color lithograph

Dimensions Sheet: 21.6 x 27.8 cm (8 1/2 x 10 15/16 in.)
Stone: 21.5 x 27.9 cm (8 7/16 x 11 in.)

Credit Line The Living New England Artist Purchase Fund, created by The Stephen and Sybil Stone Foundation

Accession Number2002.331

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsContemporary Art, Americas, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

InscriptionsPrinted inscription on verso: "410 Columbus Ave is my present studio-home, an old bowfront house of the early 1870's. It is just about one block away from the Bancroft and Rice Schools on Appleton Street where I attended classes during World War I. At these two Elementary Schools, the Bancroft was from K to grade 4 and the Rice School from grade 5 to 8, there was on an average about 3 to 4 black children in a class of 35. I don't recall any black teachers at this time. The black population was scattered throughout the city with a growing consentration in the Roxbury area. There were still blacks on Beacon Hill though the migration from the area had gathered some momentum. In the South End there was a bit of a consentration and in many instances blacks were here for quite a long period and many are still here in 1977. Families in this area for nearly a century or more. The black population has grown considerably from the time of the late 1910's through the 1920's when I was at the Bancroft School to the time of the 1970's when I am in my studio home at 410 Columbus Avenue"

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)