Allan Rohan Crite: Neighborhood Liturgy

The first major book about an artist of powerful significance to twentieth-century Black and American art

The artist Allan Rohan Crite (1910–2007) was a community leader, mentor, and tireless recorder of the people and places of Boston, where he lived for the better part of a century. Before the age of forty, he had exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, sold work to the important collector Duncan Phillips, and earned the respect of fellow Black artists around the country. But Crite’s decisi...