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“Did you know Allan Rohan Crite worked at the Navy Yard?” asked Dorchester-based artist Susan Thompson during last month’s community town hall. We were amazed to learn about the connection between this important historic Black figurative painter, the Charlestown Navy Yard, and Mentoring Murals in Grove Hall.
“That day in the studio with Johnetta [Tinker] and Susan [Thompson], they pointed me to a detail, an open book in the hands of a woman seated on a bench in the Fall panel. [It] directly references Johnetta and Susan’s mentor, Allan Rohan Crite, a prolific painter of everyday scenes who lived in Boston for most of his life,” writes Leah Triplett Harrington in the N+T Journal.
Keep reading to follow the connection between a mural designed to celebrate mentoring and N+T’s upcoming project in the Charlestown Navy Yard held together by the legacy of Mr. Crite.
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