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Henry Ossawa Tanner

[African-American Realist Painter, 1859-1937]

• Relationships: Studied under Thomas Eakins, Bouguereau, Jean-Paul Laurens and Benjamin-Constant.
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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 Art Explorer - Images and Text Resources

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas

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

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Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Howard University Art Collection, Washington D.C.
Return from the Crucifixion, 1936

Henry Ossawa Tanner in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia
Georgia Landscape, 1889-90

Muskegon Museum of Art, Michigan
The Holy Family, ca.1909-10

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
Nicodemus

Philadelphia Museum of Art
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4 works by Henry Ossawa Tanner online

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.

Henry Ossawa Tanner at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
Papers of African American Artists

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

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

California State University WorldImages Database

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

The Athenaeum
5 works online

 
Other Web 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

 
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Henry Ossawa Tanner
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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

Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
The Henry Ossawa Tanner papers online

  
 
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