# Allan Rohan Crite artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/allan-rohan-crite/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:49:45.605Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Painting, Oil painting

## About Allan Rohan Crite

Allan Rohan Crite (1910–2007) was an American painter and a Boston-based African American artist. His identity is represented in Wikidata, Getty’s Union List of Artist Names, and artist records maintained by MoMA and the National Gallery of Art. The available sources do not establish a specific formal movement, so his work is more securely framed through place, community, and subject. Collected public-domain examples include Douglass Square, Boston, School’s Out, Corner of Washington & Northampton Streets, and Street’s End. These records connect Crite with paintings and images of Boston streets, neighborhood settings, and everyday community life. Metadata for two works also links them with the Federal Art Project and Works Progress Administration. Collectors may therefore encounter Crite through urban scenes whose titles, locations, dates, dimensions, and media are central to accurate cataloguing. His institutional authority records and the presence of auction-price records make careful entity matching especially useful for appraisal and collection research.

## Common works and media

The collected record most clearly supports paintings, including an oil view titled Douglass Square, Boston, and Boston-centered urban subjects such as Corner of Washington & Northampton Streets and Street’s End. School’s Out provides an example centered on everyday community life. Some collected object metadata refers to Federal Art Project and Works Progress Administration contexts. The source pack does not provide enough evidence to characterize Crite’s output in sculpture, ceramics, posters, or numbered editions.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin with evidence for the individual object, not the artist name alone. The collected examples document oil painting, dimensions, Boston locations, titles, and associations with Federal Art Project or Works Progress Administration material. Those details can help identify genuinely comparable works. Appraisily’s public artist page indicates a body of auction-price records, but this research pack does not provide the underlying lot descriptions, sale dates, realized prices, condition reports, provenance, or attribution evidence. It therefore supports neither a price trend nor an expected-value claim. Any appraisal should reconcile the object’s medium, size, date, subject, and documented work type with complete records for relevant public sales.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records and auction-house context, including sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. This profile distinguishes verified identity and object metadata from market details that still require lot-level review.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4730546
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500000551
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/1311
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.34223.html
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Crite
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/allan-rohan-crite/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Douglass_Square,_Boston,_1936_-_NARA_-_559054.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:School%E2%80%99s_Out_SAAM-1971.447.18_1.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Corner_of_Washington_%26_Northampton_Sts._-_DPLA_-_20d9f358295d4d34c78bc0e183913260.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Street%27s_end_-_DPLA_-_b79b42016b73dcb9bff168cb4aace64c.jpg