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Henry Ossawa Tanner (update)
Henry Ossawa Tanner was a superb American painter, active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who I first wrote about in 2012. Since then, I’m happy to report, online resources for viewing his work have expanded considerably, notably on The Athenaeum and Wikimedia Commons. You can find additional resources through Artcyclopedia and on…
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“Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit” at the Cincinnati Art Museum
“Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit” is a beautiful show about the terrific and under-appreciated turn of the 20th Century painter. It is currently on view at the Cincinnati Art Museum, where it will be on display until September 9, 2012. Unfortunately, the museum does not have much in the the way of online resources related…
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Henry Ossawa Tanner
Though American painter Henry Ossawa Tanner, who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, is frequently thought of as a realist and as an orientalist — for the Biblically themed works based on his trips to Palestine and other locations in the middle east, I came away from the current superb show…
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Eye Candy for Today: Henry Tanner’s Flight Into Egypt
Flight Into Egypt, Henry Ossawa Tanner Oil on canvas, roughly 29 x 26 inches (74 x 66 cm). Link is to a reasonably large file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Metropolitian Museum of Art As he did in many of his biblically themed canvasses, Tanner brings to bear his uncanny touch with light…
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Eye Candy for Today: Tanner’s Seine
The Seine, Henry Ossawa Tanner Original is in the National Gallery of Art, DC, zoomable version here; high-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. Though not the subject matter for which he is best known, brilliant American painter Henry Ossawa Tanner, who spent most of his later career in France, painted a number of beautifully atmospheric…
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Thomas Hovenden
19th century painter Thomas Hovenden was noted both for his work as an artist and for his role as a teacher at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. As a painter, Hovenden painted domestic scenes, historical events and to some extent still life subjects. He is noted in particular for his depictions of African…