Henry Ossawa Tanner
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Henry Ossawa Tanner was an American artist who spent much of his career in France. He became the first African-American painter to gain international acclaim. Tanner moved to Paris, France, in 1891 to
Tanner in 1907 by Frederick Gutekunst
Spinning by Firelight, 1894
The Annunciation, 1898, Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Banjo Lesson, 1893
The Banjo Lesson
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The Banjo Lesson is an 1893 oil painting by African-American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner. It depicts two African-Americans in a humble domestic setting: an old black man is teaching a young boy – possi
Henry Ossawa Tanner
…visit to the United States in 1893, Tanner presented "The American Negro in Art", an essay, at the World's Congress on Africa in Chicago, and painted The Banjo Lesson, one of his most recognized works that began as a series of sketches of Black people living in Appalachia. The painting shows an elderly black man…
Photograph by Henry Ossawa Tanner, found in France, which was used as a study.
Henry Ossawa Tanner's image for Harper's Young People, Dec 5, 1893 page 84
Another version of The Banjo Lesson by Henry Ossawa Tanner. Undated.