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Detail: Allan Rohan Crite, "Harriet and Leon," 1941. Oil on canvas. Boston Athenaeum, Gift of the artist, 1971. Courtesy of the Allan Rohan Crite Research Institute and Library. Tony Rinaldo Photography.

Dates

February 11- July 31, 2026

Location

Zimmerli Art Museum

71 Hamilton Street New Brunswick, NJ, 08901

Information

Admission at the Zimmerli is FREE to everyone. Tickets are not required for exhibitions

Allan Rohan Crite: Neighborhood

Born in New Jersey and raised in Boston, Allan Rohan Crite dedicated his life to creating a rich visual record of African American life in twentieth-century urban America. Allan Rohan Crite: Neighborhood offers a sweeping overview of Crite’s long career and enduring legacy as a storyteller, chronicler, and cultural historian, from his early paintings of everyday life to his mid-century experiments with printmaking and self-fashioning.

Allan Rohan Crite: Neighborhood is organized by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Massachusetts. The Zimmerli’s presentation is organized by Nicole Simpson, Curator of Prints and Drawings.

This exhibition is made possible through generous support from donors to Zimmerli’s Major Exhibition Fund: Kathrin and James Bergin, Sundaa and Randy Jones, Heena and Hemanshu Pandya, and Mark L. Pomerantz, with additional support from Rutgers University.

The Zimmerli’s operations, exhibitions, and programs are funded in part by Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and income from the Avenir Endowment Fund and the Andrew W. Mellon Endowment Fund, among others. Additional support comes from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and the donors, members, and friends of the museum.

Generous support for bilingual text was provided by Art Bridges Foundation’s Access for All program.

Logo with red Rutgers R and text that read "Rutgers the State University of New Jersey".
Large letter A with the text next to it reading in full "Avenir Foundation Inc."
Hand drawn squiggly letter M next to text reading "Mellon Foundation".
Black circle with black text reading "New Jersey State Council on the Arts Est. 1966" with a red triangle and swoosh in the center.
Black text reading "Bloomberg Connects", the letter O in the word Connects has been designed as a magnifying glass.
Text reading "Art Bridges Foundation" with a purple arch connecting the words.

Exhibition Preview

Allan Rohan Crite, "Harriet and Leon," 1941. Oil on canvas. Boston Athenaeum, Gift of the artist, 1971. Courtesy of the Allan Rohan Crite Research Institute and Library. Tony Rinaldo Photography.

Allan Rohan Crite, Streetcar Madonna, 1946. Watercolor with black ink and white gouache over graphite. Boston Athenaeum, Gift of the artist, 1971. Courtesy of the Allan Rohan Crite Research Institute and Library.

Allan Rohan Crite, 410 Columbus Avenue (from An Artist's Sketchbook of the South End: A Walking Tour about Black People), 1977. Offset color lithograph. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The Living New England Artist Purchase Fund, created by The Stephen and Sybil Stone Foundation. Courtesy of the Allan Rohan Crite Research Institute and Library. Photo © 2025 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Allan Rohan Crite, A Maternity Club, July 1940. Watercolor with black ink and white highlights over graphite. Boston Athenaeum, Gift of Allan Rohan Crite, February 1971. Courtesy of the Allan Rohan Crite Research Institute and Library.