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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.110
People
Allan Rohan Crite, American (Plainfield NJ 1910 - 2007 Boston)
Title
Virgin and Child
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1943
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308727

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink on white illustration board
Dimensions
38 x 25.4 cm (14 15/16 x 10 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black ink, l.r.: Allan R. Crite / [monogram] / Aug 1943
  • inscription: across top, black ink, in artist's hand: Who is she that looketh forth as the morning fair as the moon, clear as the sun / Song of Solomon 6.10
  • inscription: across bottom, black ink, in artist's hand: Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the just, let the earth be opened and bud forth / a Saviour. / Isa. 45
  • inscription: verso, red pencil: Virgin and Child / Allan R. Crite / 2 Dilworth St. / Boston 18 Mass
  • inscription: verso, red pencil and graphite: $35.00
  • inscription: verso, graphite: 14 x 18

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Meta and Paul J. Sachs (L. 2091), Cambridge Massachusetts, by 1946, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Copyright
© Estate of Allan Rohan Crite
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.110
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • Christmas in Old Master Drawings, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, 11/30/1951 - 12/23/1951

Verification Level

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