School's Out!
Or soon to be.… Enjoy the summer.School's Out demonstrates the approach that earned Crite the title of "artist-reporter" in his Roxbury, Massachusetts, neighborhood during the 1930s and 1940s. A joyous, carnival-like atmosphere characterizes this scene of young children emerging from a red brick schoolhouse surrounded by an iron fence. Although painted more than a half-century ago, Crite's theme of youngsters enjoying the end of another school year is as contemporary as the year in which it was painted.
Source: Regenia A. Perry. Free within Ourselves: African-American Artists in the Collection of the National Museum of American Art (Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art in Association with Pomegranate Art Books, 1992).
Pictured: Allan Rohan Crite, born 1910, School's Out, 1936, oil, 30 1/4 x 36 1/8 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from The Museum of Modern Art.
Or soon to be.… Enjoy the summer.School's Out demonstrates the approach that earned Crite the title of "artist-reporter" in his Roxbury, Massachusetts, neighborhood during the 1930s and 1940s. A joyous, carnival-like atmosphere characterizes this scene of young children emerging from a red brick schoolhouse surrounded by an iron fence. Although painted more than a half-century ago, Crite's theme of youngsters enjoying the end of another school year is as contemporary as the year in which it was painted.