Sunlight+and+Shadow

Date: 1941
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1977/1977.45_1a.jpg?itok=r06yG1so width="390" height="251" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/sunlight-and-shadow-5966"]] || Title: **Sunlight and Shadow**

Artist: **Allan Rohan Crite** Born: Plainfield, New Jersey 1910 Died: Boston, Massachusetts 2007

Medium: oil on board Dimensions: 25 1/4 x 39 in. (64.2 x 99.1 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Museum purchase

Accession: 1977.45 || Three generations converse and play in a community park. The scene reminds us of the important function of extended families in African American communities. Referring to himself as an “artist-reporter,” Crite stated that his intention was “to show…the usual pleasures of life with its mixtures of both sorrow and joy.”
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Allan Rohan Crite tapped into the social milieu of his community. //Sunlight and Shadow// is one of about two dozen paintings Crite created for the government's art projects during the Depression, in which he documented the people and architecture in his Roxbury, Mass. neighborhood. The scene reminds the viewer of the importance of extended families in African American communities.


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