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Original works by Henry Ossawa Tanner available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
The Two Disciples at the Tomb
Art Institute of Chicago Art Explorer - Images and Text Resources
Detailed information about the artist and his works
Henry Ossawa Tanner at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Henry Ossawa Tanner at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Portrait of the Artist's Mother, 1897
Henry Ossawa Tanner at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
3 works by Henry Ossawa Tanner online
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Henry Ossawa Tanner at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
The Seine, ca.1902
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Spinning by Firelight--The Boyhood of George Washington Gray
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
Gate in Tangier, etching, ca.1910
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
Christ Walking on the Waters, etching, ca.1910
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
The Wreck, etching, ca.1913
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
Mosque, Tangier, etching, ca.1912-14
Brooklyn Museum, New York City NEW!
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Howard University Art Collection, Washington D.C.
Return from the Crucifixion, 1936
La Salle University Art Museum, Philadelphia NEW!
Mary, 1898 (click "next" to see the painting)
Henry Ossawa Tanner in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia
Georgia Landscape, 1889-90
National Academy Museum & School of Fine Arts, New York City
The Miraculous Haul of Fishes, ca.1913-14
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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4 works by Henry Ossawa Tanner online
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey NEW!
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Gateway, Tangier, ca.1912
Sheldon Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
Horse of the Khedive - Egypt
Henry Ossawa Tanner at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Springfield Museum of Art, Ohio
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago
Les Invalides, Paris, 1896
The Newark Museum, New Jersey
The Good Shepherd, 1920
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Weatherspoon Art Museum at The University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Mary, ca.1908
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
3 works online
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Henry Ossawa Tanner in the Artchive
Henry Ossawa Tanner at The Athenaeum
7 works online
California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
Miscellaneous Sites:
Los Angeles Police Department, Art Theft Detail
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PBS
Biographical info from the African American World section of the PBS website
Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
Papers of African American Artists (see the links at right)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Henry Ossawa Tanner 
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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide
Painting the World's Christ: Tanner, Hybridity, and the Blood of the Holy Land
Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
The Henry Ossawa Tanner papers online
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
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Henry Ossawa Tanner: American Artist
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