Henry Ossawa Tanner

Henry Ossawa Tanner (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la Silimiin goli June biɛɣ'pish ni yini dali yuuni 1859  ka daa kpi Silimiin goli May biɛɣ'pishi ni anu dali, yuuni 1937)  o daa nyɛla America nuchee ni baŋda so ŋun daa  be France tingbanni . Ŋuni n nyɛ tuuli gbanpiɛli gbansabinli ŋun na min di duniya zaa kpaŋmaŋ pini . Tanner nyɛla ŋun daa chaŋ Paris, France, yuuni  1891 ni o ti bɔ baŋsim shikuru yuli booni  Académie Julian ka di sɔŋɔ ka o pa nyɛ yuli n kpe France nucheeni tuun tumdi bɛ ni.  Yuuni  1923,  French gomdanti daa nyɛla ŋun piigi Tanner chevalier ka o leegi Legion of Honor.

Piligu biɛhigu mini shikuru baŋsim 
Henry Ossawa Tanner nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so tiŋ yuli booni Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.Henry Ossawa Tanner. American, 1859 - 1937. National Gallery of Art. https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.1919.html O ba  Benjamin Tucker Tanner bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so yuuni 1835 ka o daa kani yuuni 1923 la nyɛla ŋun daa leegi dolodolo kpɛma zaŋ  n-ti Asɔriduu din yuli booni  African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME).

Pina
1895, Atlanta, Cotton States and International Exposition: bronze medal for The Bagpipe Lesson.
1896, Salon: honorable mention for Daniel in the Lions' Den
1897, Salon: third class medal for Raising of Lazarus
1899, Philadelphia Academy of Fine Art: Walter Lippincott prize for Christ and Nicodemus on a Rooftop
1900, Paris Exposition: silver medal for Daniel in the Lions' Den
1901, Buffalo Exposition: silver medal for Daniel in the Lions' Den
1904, St. Louis Exposition: silver medal for Daniel in the Lions' Den
1906, Salon: second class medal for The Disciples at Emmaus
1906, Art Institute of Chicago, Norman Wait Harris silver medal for The Two Disciples at the Tomb
1915, Panama–Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco: gold medal for Christ at the Home of Lazarus (This link is to the study, not the final painting).
1922, France: Knighthood of the Legion of Honor for his efforts in World War I, part of the Red Cross
1927, New York, National Arts Club: bronze medal for Flight into Egypt (At the Gates)
1930, New York City, Grand Central Art Gallery: Walter L. Clark  prize for Etaples Fisher Folk

Exhibitions

 1972: The Art of Henry Ossawa Tanner. Glen Falls, New York: The Hyde Collection.
 1972: 19th Century American Landscape. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
 1976: Two Centuries of Black American Art. Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
 1989: Black Art Ancestral Legacy: The African Impulse in African-American Art. Dallas Museum of Art.
 1993: Revisiting the White City: American Art at the 1893 World's Fair
 2010: Henry Ossawa Tanner and his Contemporaries,"Henry Ossawa Tanner and his Contemporaries" , Des Moines Art Center. Des Moines Art Center (December–February 2011).
 2012: Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit,"Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit", PAFA. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia (January–April), then to Cincinnati Art Museum (May–September) and to Houston Museum of Fine Arts (October–January 2013)

Selected works

 Seascape-Jetty (c. 1876–78)
 Pomp at the Zoo (1880). Private Collection
 Joachim Leaving the Temple (c. 1882–1888). Baltimore Museum of Art
 Boy and Sheep Lying under a Tree (1881). Private Collection (On display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art)
 Sand Dunes at Sunset, Atlantic City (1886). Estate of Sadie T. M. Alexander (On permanent display at the White House)
 The Bagpipe Lesson (1893). Hampton University Museum, Virginia
 The Banjo Lesson (1893). Hampton University Museum, Virginia
 The Thankful Poor (1894). Art Bridges
 The Young Sabot Maker (1895). The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
 Daniel in the Lions' Den (1895). Los Angeles County Museum of Art
 The Resurrection of Lazarus (1896). Musée d'Orsay, Paris
 Bishop Benjamin Tucker Tanner (1897). Baltimore Museum of Art
 Lions in the Desert (c. 1897–1900). Smithsonian American Art Museum
 The Annunciation (1898). Philadelphia Museum of Art, W.P. Wilstach Collection
 Moonlight Landscape (1898–1900). Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, VA.
 Return of the Holy Women (1904). Cedar Rapids Art Gallery, Iowa
 Two Disciples at the Tomb (1905–06). Art Institute of Chicago
 The Visitation (1909–10). Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
 The Holy Family (1909–10). Muskegon Museum of Art, Michigan, Hackley Picture Fund
 Moroccan Scene (about 1912). Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
 Palace of Justice, Tangier (1912–13). Smithsonian American Art Museum
 Scene in Cairo. Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art, Shawnee, Oklahoma

 Other works 
See: List of paintings by Henry Ossawa Tanner with events in his life

Lihimi m-pahi
 African-American art
 List of Orientalist artists
 Orientalism
 Realism (arts)

 Kundivihira 

Further reading
 Anna O. Marley, ed. Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit  (University of California Press: 2012).
 Marcia M. Matthews, Henry Ossawa Tanner: American Artist  (University of Chicago Press: 1995).
 Kristin Schwain, Signs of Grace: Religion and American Art in the Gilded Age (Cornell University Press: 2007).
 Will South, “A Missing Question Mark: The Unknown Henry Ossawa Tanner,” Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, vol. 8. issue 2 (Autumn 2009).
 Judith Wilson, “Lifting ‘The Veil’: Henry O. Tanner’s The Banjo Lesson and The Thankful Poor,” Contributions in Black Studies: A Journal of African and Afro-American Studies, volume 9, article 4.

External links

 White House Biography
 Springfield Museum of Art Biography
 Ebony Society of Philatelic Events and Reflections Biography
 Muskegon Museum of Art
 Profile at PBS.org 
 Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit (University of California Press, 2012)—the most complete scholarly publication to date produced in conjunction with the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA), Tanner's alma mater
 Biographical sketch and gallery at the Smithsonian American Art Museum

 Art online
 Moroccan Scene at the Birmingham Museum of Art

Archives of American Art
 Henry Ossawa Tanner Papers
 Alexander family papers relating to Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1912–1985
 Gallery of images and letters from the PAFA archives 
Henry Ossawa Tanner papers, 1860s–1978, bulk 1890–1937. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

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