Henry Ossawa Tanner
(1859–1937) African-American painter (1859–1937)
Henry Ossawa Tanner (USA, 1859–1937) is listed in the catalogue as a painter, a printmaker, and a photographer. By year of birth, Henry Ossawa Tanner belongs to the chapter ‘Post-Impressionism and Symbolism’ in this site’s history of art.
Henry Ossawa Tanner was born in Pittsburgh and died in 6th arrondissement of Paris. Henry Ossawa Tanner trained at Académie Julian and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. The teachers included Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens. Henry Ossawa Tanner worked in Paris, Pont-Aven, and Philadelphia. Wikidata associates Henry Ossawa Tanner with realism. Henry Ossawa Tanner was awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour.
The best-known works include ‘Moroccan Scene’, ‘The Thankful Poor’, ‘The Banjo Lesson’, and ‘The Young Sabot Maker’. The works belong mainly to the genres genre painting, figure painting, and religious painting. The catalogue has 101 works by Henry Ossawa Tanner with free images. The dated works span the years 1880–1930. Works by Henry Ossawa Tanner are held by several collections, among them Smithsonian American Art Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, High Museum of Art, and Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Florence Esté, Étienne Moreau-Nélaton, Karin Larsson, Walter Leighton Clark, and William Langson Lathrop.