Henry ossawa tanner biography
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Henry Ossawa Tanner
American painter (–)
Henry Ossawa Tanner | |
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Tanner in by Frederick Gutekunst | |
Born | ()June 21, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Died | May 25, () (aged77) Paris, France |
Education | Studied with Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Later studied with Jean Paul Laurens and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant at the Académie Julian in Paris, France. |
Knownfor | Painting and drawing |
Notable work | |
Movement | American Realism, French Academic, Impressionism, Symbolism |
Spouse | Jessie Macauley Olssen (m.; died) |
Children | 1 |
Awards | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts' Lippincott Prize, ; Silver medal, Exposition Universelle, Paris, |
Elected | Elected a member of the National Academy of Design, Made an honorary chevalier of the Order of the Legion of Honor, |
Patron(s) | Joseph Crane Hartzell, Rodman Wanamaker, Atherton Curtis |
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This painting deserves to be better known and with the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement, it fryst vatten time to examine it once more.
I first showed this painting in a lecture 8 years ago. Its called The Banjo Lesson () and its by Henry Ossawa Tanner.
Henry Ossawa Tanner was the first successful African-American artist. He triumphed in a world that was predominantly white to create paintings of power, beauty and poignancy.
Tanners mother was a black slave who had dramatically flydde via a railroad. His father was a Methodist minister and an abolitionist. Henry’s mittpunkt name, Ossawa, referred to the struggle at Osawatomie in Kansas, between pro- and anti-slavery partisans.
Tanner was the only black lärjunge (at that time) to study at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. His talent was recognised early, particularly bygd his teacher Thomas Eakins. He went on, like many great artists, to train in Paris where he encountered the work of Co
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Henry Ossawa Tanner
Mathews’s standard biography of Henry Ossawa Tanner (), based on extensive research in archives in this country and family records in France. An important artist in the salons of Paris, Tanner was born and studied in Philadelphia but left America for Europe, where his race would not stand in the way of his ambition. Providing a full account of the artist’s life and art, Henry Ossawa Tanner gives readers insight into the art trends of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as well as into the struggle of African Americans of this period.
"[Tanner] ranks not only as the first truly distinguished Negro American artist but as one of America’s first outstanding successes in the salons of Europe. In this work [Mathews] has significantly added to our knowledge of the history of American art."John Hope Franklin, from the Foreword
"The book gives the main facts of Tanner’s life and successfully places his artistic work in its historic contextIt is a welcome