Henry Ossawa Tanner

Henry Ossawa Tanner
Henry Ossawa Tanner
	Pittsburgh (en) , Silimin gɔli June 21, 1859
O ya Tiŋgbaŋ	America
Residence	Henry O. Tanner House (en)
	African Americans (en)
Kpibu shee	6th arrondissement of Paris (en) ni Paris, Silimin gɔli May 24, 1937
Ba	Benjamin Tucker Tanner
Ma	Sarah Elizabeth Tanner
Tizo	view Halle Tanner Dillon Johnson (en) ;
Education
Shikuru shɛli o ni chaŋ	Académie Julian (en) ; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (en)
Bala yɛlibu, sabbu bee buɣisibu	Silmiinsili
Shikuru bila zaŋ ti	Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant (mul) ; Jean-Paul Laurens (mul)
Tuma
Tuma	Pɛnta-pɛnta, university teacher (en) , printmaker (en) , foot ŋmara, illustrator (en) , graphic artist (en) , pastellist (en) ni watercolorist (en)
Tuma shee	Paris, Pont-Aven (en) ni Philadelphia (mul)
Ŋun kpuɣi o tuma	Clark University
Notable work	Moroccan Scene (en) ; The Thankful Poor (en) ; The Banjo Lesson (en) ; The Young Sabot Maker (en)
Pin' shɛŋa o ni dee	view Knight of the Legion of Honour (1923) ;
Laɣingu	realism (en)
Nuu tuunbaŋsim balibu	genre painting (en) ; figure painting (en) ; religious painting (en) ; landscape painting (en)

Henry Ossawa Tanner (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la Silimiin goli June biɛɣ'pish ni yini dali yuuni 1859 ka daa kpi Silimiin goli May biɛɣ'pishi ni anu dali, yuuni 1937) o daa nyɛla America nuchee ni baŋda so ŋun daa be France tingbanni . Ŋuni n nyɛ tuuli gbanpiɛli gbansabinli ŋun na min di duniya zaa kpaŋmaŋ pini .^[1] Tanner nyɛla ŋun daa chaŋ Paris, France, yuuni 1891 ni o ti bɔ baŋsim shikuru yuli booni Académie Julian ka di sɔŋɔ ka o pa nyɛ yuli n kpe France nucheeni tuun tumdi bɛ ni. Yuuni 1923, French gomdanti daa nyɛla ŋun piigi Tanner chevalier ka o leegi Legion of Honor.^[2]^[3]

Piligu biɛhigu mini shikuru baŋsim

Henry Ossawa Tanner nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so tiŋ yuli booni Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.^[4] O ba Benjamin Tucker Tanner bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so yuuni 1835 ka o daa kani yuuni 1923 la nyɛla ŋun daa leegi dolodolo kpɛma zaŋ n-ti Asɔriduu din yuli booni African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME).

Pina

1895, Atlanta, Cotton States and International Exposition: bronze medal for The Bagpipe Lesson.^[5]
1896, Salon: honorable mention^[6] for Daniel in the Lions' Den^[7]
1897, Salon: third class medal^[6] for Raising of Lazarus^[8]
1899, Philadelphia Academy of Fine Art: Walter Lippincott prize^[6] for Christ and Nicodemus on a Rooftop^[8]
1900, Paris Exposition: silver medal^[6]^[9] for Daniel in the Lions' Den^[7]
1901, Buffalo Exposition: silver medal^[6]^[9] for Daniel in the Lions' Den^[7]
1904, St. Louis Exposition: silver medal^[6]^[9] for Daniel in the Lions' Den^[7]
1906, Salon: second class medal for The Disciples at Emmaus^[7]
1906, Art Institute of Chicago, Norman Wait Harris silver medal for The Two Disciples at the Tomb^[6]^[10]^[8]
1915, Panama–Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco: gold medal^[6]^[9] for Christ at the Home of Lazarus^[7] (This link is to the study, not the final painting).
1922, France: Knighthood of the Legion of Honor^[6] for his efforts in World War I, part of the Red Cross^[11]
1927, New York, National Arts Club: bronze medal for Flight into Egypt (At the Gates)^[7]
1930, New York City, Grand Central Art Gallery: Walter L. Clark prize for Etaples Fisher Folk^[8]^[7]

Exhibitions

1973 U.S. commemorative stamp honoring Tanner.

1972: The Art of Henry Ossawa Tanner. Glen Falls, New York: The Hyde Collection.
1972: 19th Century American Landscape. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
1976: Two Centuries of Black American Art. Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
1989: Black Art Ancestral Legacy: The African Impulse in African-American Art. Dallas Museum of Art.
1993: Revisiting the White City: American Art at the 1893 World's Fair^[12]
2010: Henry Ossawa Tanner and his Contemporaries,^[13] Des Moines Art Center (December–February 2011).
2012: Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit,^[14] Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia (January–April), then to Cincinnati Art Museum^[15] (May–September) and to Houston Museum of Fine Arts (October–January 2013)

Selected works

Seascape-Jetty (c. 1876–78)
Pomp at the Zoo (1880). Private Collection
Joachim Leaving the Temple (c. 1882–1888). Baltimore Museum of Art
Boy and Sheep Lying under a Tree (1881). Private Collection (On display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art)
Sand Dunes at Sunset, Atlantic City (1886). Estate of Sadie T. M. Alexander (On permanent display at the White House)
The Bagpipe Lesson (1893). Hampton University Museum, Virginia
The Banjo Lesson (1893). Hampton University Museum, Virginia
The Thankful Poor (1894). Art Bridges^[16]
The Young Sabot Maker (1895). The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Daniel in the Lions' Den (1895). Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Resurrection of Lazarus (1896). Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Bishop Benjamin Tucker Tanner (1897). Baltimore Museum of Art
Lions in the Desert (c. 1897–1900). Smithsonian American Art Museum
The Annunciation (1898). Philadelphia Museum of Art, W.P. Wilstach Collection
Moonlight Landscape (1898–1900). Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, VA.^[17]
Portrait of Tanner by V. Floyd Campbell
The Good Shepherd (1903). Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University
Return of the Holy Women (1904). Cedar Rapids Art Gallery, Iowa
Two Disciples at the Tomb (1905–06). Art Institute of Chicago
The Visitation (1909–10). Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
The Holy Family (1909–10). Muskegon Museum of Art, Michigan, Hackley Picture Fund
Moroccan Scene (about 1912). Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
Palace of Justice, Tangier (1912–13). Smithsonian American Art Museum^[18]
Scene in Cairo. Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art, Shawnee, Oklahoma

Other works

See: List of paintings by Henry Ossawa Tanner with events in his life

Pomp at the zoo, circa 1880
Pomp at the Philadelphia Zoo, circa 1880-1886
Sister Sarah, 1882.
Woman from the West Indies, 1891, Brittany, France.^[19]
The Bagpipe Lesson, 1893
The Young Sabot Maker, 1895
1895. Marshes in New Jersey; possibly the "pastel of New Jersey coast by moonlight" exhibited at the 1895 Salon with The Young Sabot Maker.^[7]
The Annunciation to the Shepherds, c. 1895
The Resurrection of Lazarus, 1896. Won medal in 1897 Paris Salon, bought by French government.
View of the Seine, looking toward Notre Dame, 1896
Jesus and Nicodemus, 1899. Displayed at Paris Salon and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where it won a Walter Lippincott Prize.
Salome, circa 1900. The body of John the Baptist lies at her feet.
Abraham's Oak, 1905. Biblical subject, also called the Oak of Mamre.
The Savior, 1900–1905
Christ in the home of Mary and Martha, 1905
The Disciples See Christ Walking on the Water, c. 1907
Angels Appearing before the Shepherds, c. 1910
Christ walking on the water. Engraving, possibly a show catalog, 1910.
The Three Marys (at Jesus' tomb), 1910. Entered in the 1910 Salon. (From left) Mary Magdalene, Mary, mother of Jesus, Mary Salome
A View of Fez, c. 1912
Fishermen at Sea, c. 1913
Mary, 1914
Coastal Landscape, France, 1919
Daniel in the Lions' Den, 1907–1918. The original (now lost) was painted in 1895 and displayed in the 1896 Salon.^[20]^[21]
1936. Tanner's final painting, Return from the Crucifixion. Mary and Joseph are in the front.

Sand Dunes at Sunset, Atlantic City, c. 1885, the White House.
Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, 1929–30, High Museum of Art

Lihimi m-pahi

Kundivihira

↑ Henry Ossawa Tanner.
↑ Artist Info. www.nga.gov.
↑ Mosby, Dewey F. (1991). Henry Ossawa Tanner. Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia; New York: Philadelphia Museum of Art; Rizzoli International Publications. p. 50. ISBN 978-0-8478-1346-9.
↑ Henry Ossawa Tanner. American, 1859 - 1937. National Gallery of Art. https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.1919.html
↑ Carlyn G. Crannell Romeyn (Winter 1983–1984). "Henry O. Tanner: Atlanta Interlude". The Atlanta Historical Journal 27 (4). “On the other hand, it is possible that some of tanner's Atlanta friends secured the three works (including The Bagpipe Lesson which won a bronze medal) for this exposition.”
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Henry Ossawa Tanner — Artist". The Northwestern Bulletin-Appeal (Saint Paul, Minnesota): p. 2. July 25, 1925. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-northwestern-bulletin-appeal-henry-o/126437792/.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Mosby, Dewey F. (1991). Henry Ossawa Tanner. Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia; New York: Philadelphia Museum of Art; Rizzoli International Publications. p. 39. ISBN 978-0-8478-1346-9. 1895 May. Paris, Salon. Intérieur Bretagne [Brittany Interior], Le Jeune Sabotier [The Young Sabot Maker], pastel of New Jersey coast by moonlight.
1 2 3 4 "Henry Ossawa Tanner 1859/1937". Detroit Free Press: pp. 284–285. July 14, 1991. https://www.newspapers.com/article/detroit-free-press-henry-ossawa-tanner-t/126473501/.
1 2 3 4 "Noted artist dies abroad". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania): p. 17. May 27, 1937. https://www.newspapers.com/paper/pittsburgh-post-gazette/3518/.
↑ American Oil Paintings and Sculpture: 28th Annual Art Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago November 16, 1915 to January 2, 1916.
↑ Mosby, Dewey F.; Sewell, Darrell; Alexander-Minter, Rae (1991). Henry Ossawa Tanner: catalogue. Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Museum of Art. p. 32. ISBN 0-87633-086-3.
↑ A chirim ya: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named Woods, Naurice Frank, Jr., Ph.D.
↑ "Henry Ossawa Tanner and his Contemporaries" Archived Silimin gɔli April 19, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Des Moines Art Center.
↑ "Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit", PAFA.
↑ Upcoming Exhibitions.
↑ The Thankful Poor.
↑ Moonlight Landscape, (oil on canvas).. Art in Bloom. Muscarelle Museum of Art (2016).^{[permanent dead link]}
↑ Palace of Justice, Tangier, Morocco (1890–1900).
↑ Henry Ossawa Tanner Lot 41: Henry Ossawa Tanner, (American, 1859-1937), Woman from the French West Indies, c. 1891. “The artist arrived in Paris, France at this time and spent the summers on the west coast in Brittany. There, he adopted a predominately green palette with an emphasis on vertical brushstrokes as can be seen in the Woman from the French West Indies...we are looking at an image of a light-skinned woman from one of the islands of the French West Indies-Martinique, Guadeloupe or Dominica. This claim is supported by her costume and headdress.”
↑ Mathews, Marcia M (1969). Henry Ossawa Tanner, American artist. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 69–74.
↑ Henry Ossawa Tanner (July 1909). "The Story of an Artist's Life: II Recognition". The World's Work. Vol. 18 no. 3. Open Court Publishing Co. p. 11772. In 1895, I painted "Daniel in Lions' Den."...It was exhibited in the Salon of 1896..

External links

White House Biography
Springfield Museum of Art Biography
Ebony Society of Philatelic Events and Reflections Biography
Muskegon Museum of Art
Profile at PBS.org
Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit (University of California Press, 2012)—the most complete scholarly publication to date produced in conjunction with the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA), Tanner's alma mater
Biographical sketch and gallery at the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Art online

Moroccan Scene at the Birmingham Museum of Art

Archives of American Art

Henry Ossawa Tanner Papers
Alexander family papers relating to Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1912–1985
Gallery of images and letters from the PAFA archives Archived Silimin gɔli April 3, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
Henry Ossawa Tanner papers, 1860s–1978, bulk 1890–1937. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Tɛmplet:Henry Ossawa Tanner

[WhiteHouse-1] Henry Ossawa Tanner.

[2] Artist Info. www.nga.gov.

[3] Mosby, Dewey F. (1991). Henry Ossawa Tanner. Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia; New York: Philadelphia Museum of Art; Rizzoli International Publications. p. 50. ISBN 978-0-8478-1346-9.

[NatlGallery-4] Henry Ossawa Tanner. American, 1859 - 1937. National Gallery of Art. https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.1919.html

[5] Carlyn G. Crannell Romeyn (Winter 1983–1984). "Henry O. Tanner: Atlanta Interlude". The Atlanta Historical Journal 27 (4). “On the other hand, it is possible that some of tanner's Atlanta friends secured the three works (including The Bagpipe Lesson which won a bronze medal) for this exposition.”

[awards-6] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Henry Ossawa Tanner — Artist". The Northwestern Bulletin-Appeal (Saint Paul, Minnesota): p. 2. July 25, 1925. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-northwestern-bulletin-appeal-henry-o/126437792/.

[dewey1-7] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Mosby, Dewey F. (1991). Henry Ossawa Tanner. Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia; New York: Philadelphia Museum of Art; Rizzoli International Publications. p. 39. ISBN 978-0-8478-1346-9. 1895 May. Paris, Salon. Intérieur Bretagne [Brittany Interior], Le Jeune Sabotier [The Young Sabot Maker], pastel of New Jersey coast by moonlight.

[timeline-8] 1 2 3 4 "Henry Ossawa Tanner 1859/1937". Detroit Free Press: pp. 284–285. July 14, 1991. https://www.newspapers.com/article/detroit-free-press-henry-ossawa-tanner-t/126473501/.

[obit-9] 1 2 3 4 "Noted artist dies abroad". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania): p. 17. May 27, 1937. https://www.newspapers.com/paper/pittsburgh-post-gazette/3518/.

[10] American Oil Paintings and Sculpture: 28th Annual Art Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago November 16, 1915 to January 2, 1916.

[PMA_Cat-11] Mosby, Dewey F.; Sewell, Darrell; Alexander-Minter, Rae (1991). Henry Ossawa Tanner: catalogue. Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Museum of Art. p. 32. ISBN 0-87633-086-3.

[Woods,_Naurice_Frank,_Jr.,_Ph.D.-12] A chirim ya: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named Woods, Naurice Frank, Jr., Ph.D.

[13] "Henry Ossawa Tanner and his Contemporaries" Archived Silimin gɔli April 19, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Des Moines Art Center.

[14] "Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit", PAFA.

[15] Upcoming Exhibitions.

[16] The Thankful Poor.

[Moonlight_Landscape-17] Moonlight Landscape, (oil on canvas).. Art in Bloom. Muscarelle Museum of Art (2016).^{[permanent dead link]}

[WDL-18] Palace of Justice, Tangier, Morocco (1890–1900).

[19] Henry Ossawa Tanner Lot 41: Henry Ossawa Tanner, (American, 1859-1937), Woman from the French West Indies, c. 1891. “The artist arrived in Paris, France at this time and spent the summers on the west coast in Brittany. There, he adopted a predominately green palette with an emphasis on vertical brushstrokes as can be seen in the Woman from the French West Indies...we are looking at an image of a light-skinned woman from one of the islands of the French West Indies-Martinique, Guadeloupe or Dominica. This claim is supported by her costume and headdress.”

[marcia2-20] Mathews, Marcia M (1969). Henry Ossawa Tanner, American artist. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 69–74.

[21] Henry Ossawa Tanner (July 1909). "The Story of an Artist's Life: II Recognition". The World's Work. Vol. 18 no. 3. Open Court Publishing Co. p. 11772. In 1895, I painted "Daniel in Lions' Den."...It was exhibited in the Salon of 1896..

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