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Henry Ossawa Tanner, The Banjo Lesson, 1893, Hampton University Museum. Gift to museum by Robert C. Ogden. [1] The Banjo Lesson is an 1893 oil painting by African-American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner. It depicts two African-Americans in a humble domestic setting: an old black man is teaching a young boy – possibly his grandson – to play the ...
Abraham's Oak is a painting by Henry Ossawa Tanner, an American painter who lived in France, completed about 1905. [1] While Tanner is well known today for two paintings in the United States, The Banjo Lesson and The Thankful Poor, both about African-American families, the bulk of his artwork, including some of his most iconic paintings, were concerned with exploring biblical subjects.
Will South, “A Missing Question Mark: The Unknown Henry Ossawa Tanner,” Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, vol. 8. issue 2 (Autumn 2009). Judith Wilson, “Lifting ‘The Veil’: Henry O. Tanner’s The Banjo Lesson and The Thankful Poor,” Contributions in Black Studies: A Journal of African and Afro-American Studies, volume 9, article 4.
Pages in category "Paintings by Henry Ossawa Tanner" ... The Bagpipe Lesson; The Banjo Lesson; C. Christ at the home of Mary and Martha; F. Flight into Egypt (Henry O ...
Henry Ossawa Tanner is painted into this version. Study for Christ in the Home of Lazarus, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Oil on canvas, 26 x 29 in. (66 x 73.7 cm). undated Tanner painted Atherton Curtis and his wife into this version. [227] [324] Photo of painting from page 190 of Henry Ossawa Tanner, edited by Dewey F. Mosby.
The Resurrection of Lazarus is a painting by Henry Ossawa Tanner entered into the Paris Salon in 1897 and winning a third place medal. [1] [2] During his lifetime, this was the painting for which he was most known, his "masterwork". [2] Since his death in 1937, secular tastes have pushed The Banjo Lesson to the top place in public esteem. [2]
The Thankful Poor is an 1894 genre painting by the African-American painter Henry Ossawa Tanner.It depicts two African Americans praying at a table, and shares common themes with Tanner's other paintings from the 1890s including The Banjo Lesson (1893) and The Young Sabot Maker (1895).
Henry Ossawa Tanner's image for Harper's Young People, Dec 5, 1893 page 84 lower resolution Licensing This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art.