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Moses in the Bullrushes

1921
oil on wood panel
22 3/8 x 15 1/8 in. (56.8 x 38.5 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

 GAAnonymous
Mountain Landscape, Highlands, North Carolina

1889
watercolor, pencil, and colored pencil on paper mounted on paperboard
10 7/8 x 15 in. (27.5 x 38.1 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

 GAAnonymous
Palace of Justice, Tangier

ca. 1912-1913
oil on canvas
25 5/8 x 31 7/8 in. (65.1 x 81.0 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

 GAAnonymous
Portrait of the Artist's Wife

1897
oil on fiberboard
22 3/8 x 18 7/8 in. (56.8 x 47.9 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

 GAAnonymous
Return to the Tomb

1914
lithograph on paper
9 5/8 x 11 1/4 in. (24.3 x 28.6 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

 GAAnonymous
Salome

ca. 1900
oil on canvas
45 7/8 x 35 1/4 in. (116.5 x 89.4 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

 GAAnonymous
Self-Portrait

ca. 1910
pencil and conte crayon on paper
8 1/2 x 8 3/8 in. (21.7 x 21.3 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

 GAAnonymous
Street in Tangier

ca. 1910
oil on fiberboard
13 5/8 x 10 1/2 in. (34.5 x 26.7 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

notes
Henry Ossawa Tanner might have created this scene with a passage from the Gospel of Luke in mind. In the background, Mary and Joseph approach the inn at Bethlehem, represented by the shadowed entrance on the left (Mosby, Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1991). Tanner did not visit Tangier until 1912, which suggests that he probably painted this scene in his...
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Street Scene, Tangier (Crenelated Architecture)

ca. 1910
oil on paperboard
10 5/8 x 13 3/4 in. (27.0 x 34.9 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

 GAAnonymous
Street Scene, Tangier (Man Leading Calf)

ca. 1910
oil on paperboard
10 5/8 x 13 3/4 in. (27.0 x 34.9 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

notes
Henry Ossawa Tanner probably painted this scene in his Paris studio from postcards or photographs of Tangier, which he visited two years later. By 1910, Tanner had established himself as a religious painter and used his trips to North Africa and the Middle East for inspiration. This street scene refers to the passage in the Bible in which a man is...
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