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Henry Ossawa Tanner
[African-American Realist Painter, 1859-1937]
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Henry Ossawa Tanner Works Online
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Original works by Henry Ossawa Tanner available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
(There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Henry Ossawa Tanner at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Flight into Egypt, 1899
Henry Ossawa Tanner at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Portrait of the Artist's Mother, 1897
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Artworks in the museum's collections database
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
Henry Ossawa Tanner at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
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
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Howard University Art Collection, Washington D.C.
Return from the Crucifixion, 1936
La Salle University Art Museum, Philadelphia
Mary, 1898 (click "next" to see the painting)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia
Georgia Landscape, 1889-90
Museum of the National Academy of Design, New York City
The Miraculous Haul of Fishes, ca.1913-14
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Landscape
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Gateway, Tangier, ca.1912
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
Horse of the Khedive - Egypt
Springfield Museum of Art, Ohio
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago NEW!
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
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National 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)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Henry Ossawa Tanner at The Artchive
Henry Ossawa Tanner at The Athenaeum
7 works online
California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
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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
Henry Ossawa Tanner at the 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 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
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
A Missing Question Mark: The Unknown Henry Ossawa Tanner
Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide
Painting the World's Christ: Tanner, Hybridity, and the Blood of the Holy Land
Henry Ossawa Tanner at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
The Henry Ossawa Tanner papers online
The Magazine Antiques
"An appreciation of Henry Ossawa Tanner"
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
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Henry Ossawa Tanner: American Artist
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