Henry Ossawa Tanner's "The Thankful Poor," from 1894, shows a young boy and his grandfather with their heads bowed in prayer over a humble meal. Tanner's two-painting exhibition continues through Jan.

Henry Ossawa Tanner’s Return from the Cross, one of the biblical scenes for which the pioneering Black artist was known, will be offered at Bonhams’ sale of American art this Thursday for an estimate ...

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The pioneering 19th-century African-American painter Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937) is getting major recognition at his alma mater, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, with the retrospective ...

The Philadelphia row house hosted generations of Black scholars and leaders Christopher Parker - Daily Correspondent The first step in the restoration process will be stabilizing the Tanner house's ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The papers of the expatriate African American painter Henry Ossawa Tanner measure 2.3 linear feet and date from the 1860s to 1978, with the bulk ...

They were painted by Henry Ossawa Tanner, one of the first African-American artists ever to achieve international fame. The son of a Philadelphia minister and a former slave, tanner moved to Paris in ...

Rather, he would be known for genre subjects of Black life, landscapes and religious themes. The last doubtless drew inspiration from his father’s profession as an influential African Methodist ...

Born in Pittsburgh in 1859, Henry Ossawa Tanner moved to Paris, where he found "nobody knows or cares what was the complexion of my forebears."... I just met Henry Ossawa Tanner. Nice trick, since he ...

I just met Henry Ossawa Tanner. Nice trick, since he died in 1937. Tanner was the first African American artist with an international reputation. His paintings are in many museums, but I've walked ...