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

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1885–86
Childe Hassam, American, 1859–1935
Dimensions
x cm (42 x 60 in.)
Accession Number
31.952
Medium or Technique
Oil on canvas
Collections
Americas

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Boston Cod
Clare Leighton (English, 1899–1989)
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Woodcut

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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.  

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Title: Madonna of Dudley Station (Curve in the Tracks). Number 4 from the series Madonnas of Transportation Date: 1987
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By: Allan Rohan Crite
American, 1910–2007
Object Number: 
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

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Title: Newbury Street, Boston, MA Date: 1985
By: N. Jay Jaffee
American, 1921–1999
Object Number: 
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  

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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

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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.)
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Watercolor over graphite pencil on paper

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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 cm) Canvas size: 52 x 35 inches (132.1 x 88.9 cm)
Accession Number
Medium or Technique
Oil on canvas

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Boston Harbor
about 1850–55 Fitz Henry Lane (American, 1804–1865)
DIMENSIONS
66.04 x cm (26 x 42 in.)
ACCESSION NUMBER
66.339
MEDIUM OR TECHNIQUE
Oil on canvas

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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: 
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.