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Henry Ossawa Tanner (June 21, 1859 – May 25, 1937) was an American artist who spent much of his career in France. He became the first African-American painter to ...
This is an incomplete list of paintings by American painter Henry Ossawa Tanner (June 21, 1859 – May 25, 1937). Tanner is the first Black artist to have a major solo exhibition in the United States, [1] and the first to have his work acquired for the collection of the White House.
The Henry O. Tanner House is a historic house at 2908 West Diamond Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.It was from 1872 to 1888 the childhood home of Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937), an African-American artist who was the first of his race to be elected to National Academy of Design.
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, 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 ...
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]
The childhood home of famed American painter Henry Ossawa Tanner has long been abandoned in ruins in Philadelphia but efforts The post Philadelphia group raising money to maintain the home of ...
Flight into Egypt was a painting by Henry Ossawa Tanner, created in Paris about 1899 and displayed at the Carnegie Institute that year, along with Judas. [1] The painting, a religious work, is an example of Tanner's symbolist paintings.