[DAC] Mr. Alan Crite passes at 96

[Ekua (EJ) Holmes]

This was sent via Mel King. 


What a great mentor Mr. Crite was to so many of us. Please share this with your list.



Subject: Allan Crite

Birth Year : 1910

Death Year :9/6/2007 

Country : US



>   Alan Rohan Crite is a Bostonian, a graduate of the


> public schools and the Boston Museum School of Fine


> Arts. He took evening courses for fourteen years,


> principally in the natural sciences, and was awarded


> a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University's


> Extension Division in 1968. Primarily an artist of


> religious works, (many of which are in museums and


> private collections), Crite has done murals and


> Stations of the Cross for churches, has written and


> illustrated three books on religious themes,


> lectured on liturgical art at universities and


> churches, and exhibited both here and abroad. 


>   


> 


>   Crite's oils and graphics, even when restricted to


> black and white, are bright in tonality, fine and


> varied in line, extremely rhythmic, dramatic in


> movement, and often patterned. They have an amusing


> element of folklore that is used to great advantage.


> Some of the flat, elongated drawing recalls early


> Gothic art. In his own words, he follows "the


> ancient tradition of Christian art, in showing the


> holy events of the Life of Our Lord in contemporary


> terms," in the lives of black people, in their deep


> religious feeling, and in his own spirituality. He


> has created a modern form of liturgical art that is


> an affirmation of faith. 

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