Mar 31, 2022 - Sale 2599

Sale 2599 - Lot 21

Price Realized: $ 18,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
ALLAN ROHAN CRITE (1910 - 2007)
Steal Away Home, I Ain't Got Long to Stay Here.

Pen, brush and ink on cream illustration board, 1937. 432x305 mm; 17x12 inches. Signed and dated in ink, lower left.

Provenance: private collection, New Jersey.

This large and beautiful ink drawing by Allan Rohan Crite impressively illustrates the chorus from the spiritual Steal Away (Steal Away to Jesus), one of the many spiritual songs popularized by Fisk University Jubilee Singers.