The Thankful Poor is an 1894 genre painting by the African-American painter Henry Ossawa Tanner. It depicts two African Americans praying at a table, and shares common themes with Tanner's other paint
The Prayer Before the Meal (1660), Jan Steen
Le Repas en Famille (The Family Meal) (1891), Elizabeth Nourse
The Young Sabot Maker (1895), Henry Ossawa Tanner
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.