Tire Jumping in Front of My Window

Raised in Boston, Crite often painted scenes of life in the city’s South End. Here, children play, lining up to jump over a rolling tire. Crite had a special relationship with this spot, the otherwise ordinary corner of Dilworth and Northampton Streets:“I lived over that store for forty-six years. I looked out that window, down Northampton Street towards Columbus Avenue African Methodist Episcopal Church . . . Dilworth Street was an important phase in my life, where much of my major work as an artist was produced. . . . Today the street no longer exists. It is a vacant lot. The street is a memory, along with all the other vanished streets of the city.”