Sarah Elizabeth Tanner
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Sarah Elizabeth Tanner was active as a missionary worker and a religious leader in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Mrs. Sarah Tanner with her husband Bishop Benjamin Tucker Tanner.
Portrait of the Artist's Mother by Henry Ossawa Tanner. 1896.
Mother of Henry O. Tanner, a second portrait of Sarah Elizabeth Tanner by Henry Ossawa Tanner. Undated.
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, The Banjo Lesson, 1893, Hampton University Museum. Gift to museum by Robert C. Ogden.
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.