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 | Study for Christ and Nicodemus on a Rooftop ca. 1923 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. |  This study for Christ and Nicodemus on a Rooftop made Henry Ossawa Tanner's reputation. The story of Nicodemus visiting Christ at night spoke to African American worship habits that Tanner remembered from his youth: After emancipation, freed slaves continued to meet at night, as they had done when their masters had forbidden them to read the Bible... | GA | Anonymous |
 | Study for Flight to Egypt ca. 1899-1923 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | |
 | Study for Mary, Return from the Crucifixion 1933 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | |
 | Study for Rachel from The Mothers of the Bible ca. 1898 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | |
 | Study for the Annunciation ca. 1898 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | |
 | Study for the Bagpipe Lesson 1892 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | |
 | Study for the Disciple Peter ca. 1933 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | |
 | Study for the Young Sabot Maker ca. 1895 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | |
 | The Arch 1914 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | h, in which the famous Arc de Triomphe is shown at night, brilliantly illuminated and rising above a crowd gathered at the Place d'Etoile. A rare contemporary French subject in Tanner's oeuvre of predominantly biblical and figural works, The Arch may have related to his turbulent feelings as an American expatriate on the outbreak of World War I. | GA | Anonymous |
 | The Good Shepherd (Atlas Mountains, Morocco) ca. 1930 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous |
- Henry Ossawa Tanner
