Nursing Madonna (Number 3 from the series Madonnas of Transportation)
Allan Rohan Crite
(American, 1910–2007)
1987
Medium/TechniqueOffset lithograph
DimensionsImage: 26.4 x 40.4cm (10 3/8 x 15 7/8in.)
Sheet: 27.9 x 43.2 cm (11 x 17 in.)
Sheet: 27.9 x 43.2 cm (11 x 17 in.)
Credit LineThe Living New England Artist Purchase Fund, created by The Stephen and Sybil Stone Foundation
Accession number2002.330
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In his series Madonnas of Transportation, Boston painter and printmaker Allan Rohan Crite places a black Madonna and Child in African dress amidst the everyday settings of the city's public transportation system, alternately sharing a crowded subway car with other passengers or, as here, in quiet contemplation. In his late seventies at the time, Crite executed the series with a small home printing press on standard 11x17 copy paper.
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)
