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.
Benjamin Tucker Tanner
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Benjamin Tucker Tanner was an American clergyman and editor. He edited The Christian Recorder, an influential African American Methodist newspaper, and later founded The AME Church Review, an academic
Benjamin Tucker Tanner, March 30, 1898
Bishop Benjamin Tucker Tanner, painting by his son Henry Ossawa Tanner, Kansas City, 1897