Henry Ossawa Tanner's "The Thankful Poor," from 1894, shows a young boy and his grandfather with their heads bowed in prayer over a humble meal. Tanner's two-painting exhibition continues through Jan.

Henry Ossawa Tanner’s Return from the Cross, one of the biblical scenes for which the pioneering Black artist was known, will be offered at Bonhams’ sale of American art this Thursday for an estimate ...

The Philadelphia row house hosted generations of Black scholars and leaders Christopher Parker - Daily Correspondent The first step in the restoration process will be stabilizing the Tanner house's ...

Born in Pittsburgh in 1859, Henry Ossawa Tanner moved to Paris, where he found "nobody knows or cares what was the complexion of my forebears."... I just met Henry Ossawa Tanner. Nice trick, since he ...

Tanner avoided the cameras for much of his life, but a new documentary on Black American creatives who moved to France finds candid home movie footage of him. Myth of a Colorblind France director Alan ...

The pioneering 19th-century African-American painter Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937) is getting major recognition at his alma mater, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, with the retrospective ...

Prologue: Henry Ossawa Tanner, "Negro painter" -- Introduction: Creativity and racism in the nineteenth century -- Of the father and of the son : the rise of Benjamin and Henry Tanner -- Into the ...

Plate 9 3/8 x 7 1/8 inches; 238 x 181 mm. Sheet 13 3/16 x 10 7/8 inches; 335 x 276 mm.

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Henry Ossawa Tanner papers were donated in several increments by his son, Jesse O. Tanner, between 1967 to 1978. Additional papers were ...

NORTH PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- It houses generational stories of the Philadelphia's Tanner Family, but the historical site is in desperate need of repairs, so a band of residents are crowdfunding to ...

I just met Henry Ossawa Tanner. Nice trick, since he died in 1937. Tanner was the first African American artist with an international reputation. His paintings are in many museums, but I've walked ...