1965.110: Virgin and Child

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

Permissions

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Exhibition History

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

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