MFA VTS: Depictions of Boston in Art Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? 1885–86 Childe Hassam, American, 1859–1935 Dimensions 106.68 x 152.4 cm (42 x 60 in.) Accession Number 31.952 Medium or Technique Oil on canvas Collections Americas

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Boston Cod Clare Leighton (English, 1899–1989) ACCESSION NUMBER 29.2012 MEDIUM OR TECHNIQUE Woodcut

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Title: Boat Race, Boston Harbor Date: 1852 By: A. A. Lawrence American, 19th century Object Number: 48.451 Status: Not On View Dimensions: 55.88 x 76.2 cm (22 x 30 in.) Medium: Oil on canvas Credit Line: Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Paintings, 1815–1865 Provenance: The artist; with Harry Shaw Newman, New York, 1938; with Macbeth, New York; Stephen C. Clark, New York; with Macbeth, New York; with Victor Spark, New York, 1946; to Maxim Karolik, Newport, R.I., 1946; to MFA, 1948, gift of Maxim Karolik.  

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Title: Madonna of Dudley Station (Curve in the Tracks). Number 4 from the series Madonnas of Transportation Date: 1987 Related People: By: Allan Rohan Crite American, 1910–2007 Object Number: 2002.329 Status: Not On View Dimensions: Image: 26.4 x 40.4cm (10 3/8 x 15 7/8in.) Sheet: 27.9 x 43.2 cm (11 x 17 in.) Medium: Offset lithograph Credit Line: The Living New England Artist Purchase Fund, created by The Stephen and Sybil Stone Foundation Web Description: Allan Rohan Crite, an SMFA graduate from the 1930s, has lived in Boston's South End for nine decades and is that neighborhood's greatest chronicler of African-American life. Two major themes have dominated the artist's long career: everyday depictions of the African-American community, and Biblical illustrations with black protagonists. He often combined the two, as in his 1946 painting Madonna of the Subway, which imagines a black Virgin Mary and Christ Child riding the Orange Line. Crite revisited the subject forty years later in this series of thirteen superbly drawn lithographs. Provenance: Allan Rohan Crite and Jackie Cox-Crite, Boston, MA, from whom purchased by the MFA September 25, 2002

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Title: Newbury Street, Boston, MA Date: 1985 By: N. Jay Jaffee American, 1921–1999 Object Number: 1993.975 Status: Not On View Dimensions: Sheet: 26.1 x 35.2 cm (10 1/4 x 13 7/8 in.) Mount: 40 x 50.2 cm (15 3/4 x 19 3/4 in.) Medium: Photograph, gelatin silver print Credit Line: Gift of Cyrisse Jaffee and Barry Anechiarico Provenance: Cyrisse Jaffee, Newton, MA; gift December 1993.  

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Tire Jumping in Front of My Window 1936–47 Allan Rohan Crite (American, 1910–2007) Dimensions Height x width: 23 1/2 x 17 1/2 in. (59.7 x 44.5 cm) Accession Number 2007.3 Medium or Technique Oil on canvasboard

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Carnival, Franklin Park, Boston 1897 Maurice Brazil Prendergast (American (born in Canada), 1858–1924) CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ Clark, Matthews, Owens 0611 DIMENSIONS Sheet: 34 x 37.5 cm (13 3/8 x 14 3/4 in.) Framed: 54 x 59.7 cm (21 1/4 x 23 1/2 in.) ACCESSION NUMBER 35.1689 MEDIUM OR TECHNIQUE Watercolor over graphite pencil on paper

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Museum Epiphany III Warren Prosperi (American, born in 1949), By collaborator Lucia Prosperi (American, born in 1951) Dimensions Framed: 62 x 45 inches (157.5 x 114.3 cm) Canvas size: 52 x 35 inches (132.1 x 88.9 cm) Accession Number 2012.131 Medium or Technique Oil on canvas

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Boston Harbor about 1850–55 Fitz Henry Lane (American, 1804–1865) DIMENSIONS 66.04 x 106.68 cm (26 x 42 in.) ACCESSION NUMBER 66.339 MEDIUM OR TECHNIQUE Oil on canvas

What is going on in this image? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find? Title: A Party in the Great Hall of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, about 1975 (Illustration for A Beacon Hill Christmas) Date: about 1975 By: Barbara Westman American, born in 1929 Object Number: 2001.893 Status: Not On View Dimensions: Sheet: 57.1 x 81.9 cm (22 1/2 x 32 1/4 in.) (pieced) Medium: Pen, black ink, and watercolor Credit Line: Gift of the artist Provenance: The artist; 2001 gift to MFA.