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Crite hoped to depict the life of
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It was very useful, because it gave me a framework of discipline within which to do my work. So I used that, for example, as the frame of discipline to illustrate the spirituals, by making use of the liturgy, the vestments, and everything like that — using the vestments and appurtenances as, you
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His work is recognizable in its use of rich earth tone colors. According to one biographer, his favorite color was "all colors" and his favorite time of year was "anything but winter." According to one reviewer, "Crite's oils and graphics, even when restricted to black and white, are bright in
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society and its reality. By using representational style rather than modernism, Crite felt that he could more adequately "report" and capture the reality that
African Americans were part of but often unaccounted for.
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His widow established the Allan Rohan Crite
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I've only done one piece of work in my whole life and I am still at it. I wanted to paint people of color as normal humans. I tell the story of man through the black figure.
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His paintings fall into two categories: religious themes and general
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holds the largest public collection of his paintings and watercolors, a bequest from Crite in gratitude for his long tenure there as a visiting artist.
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in 1929. His father, Oscar
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Crite's works hang in more than a hundred
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tonality, fine and varied in line, extremely rhythmic, dramatic in movement, and often patterned."
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is an example of a blend of genres, depicting a Black Holy Mother and baby Jesus riding Boston's
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Were You There When They
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He died in his sleep of natural causes on
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Recognition came early as well. His work was first shown at New York's
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Crite explained his body of work as having a common theme:
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Crite was among the few African-Americans employed by the
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334:Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
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