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 | A.R.C. Canteen, World War I 1918 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | |
 | Abraham's Oak 1905 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | |
 | And He Disappeared out of Their Sight ca. 1898 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. |  The son of a minister, Henry Ossawa Tanner dedicated himself to painting religious subjects, and his trips to the Holy Land in 1897 and 1898 helped to inspire his work. This scene from the Gospel of Luke shows the resurrected Christ and two of his disciples sitting down to dinner. His followers do not recognize Jesus until he blesses the bread and... | GA | Anonymous |
 | Angels Appearing before the Shepherds ca. 1910 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | |
 | Capsized Fishing Boats, Brittany etching and aquatint on paper Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | |
 | Christ Walking on the Water etching on paper Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | |
 | Crossing the Atlantic (Return Home) 1894 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | |
 | Fishermen at Sea ca. 1913 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | |
 | Flight into Egypt ca. 1916-1922 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | |
 | Gateway, Tangier ca. 1910 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | architecture. It is unclear whether Tanner painted this image in his Paris studio or on-site, but it may have been a study for a larger work, Entrance to the Casbah, which has a similar composition and was completed a couple of years later. | GA | Anonymous |
 | Hand of Henry O. Tanner ca. 1930 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | |
 | Haystacks ca. 1930 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | |
 | He Healed the Sick ca. 1930 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | This painting is probably a study for another work by Henry Ossawa Tanner titled Disciples Healing the Sick, which is more finished and detailed. There are numerous instances in the Bible in which Christ performs miraculous healings, but none of the stories describes this particular scene. Tanner created this painting after he had recovered from a... | GA | Anonymous |
 | Head of a Jew in Palestine 1899, reworked ca. 1918-1920 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | |
 | Highlands, N.C. 1889 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | |
 | Kansas City, Kansas 1897 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | |
 | Lions in the Desert ca. 1897-1900 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | ory museum. Tanner painted Lions in the Desert during one of his visits to the Middle East, which he described as a barren landscape. He did not see actual lions there, but later added them to the painting in his studio. | GA | Anonymous |
 | Man Sitting in a Chair 1889 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | |
 | Marshes in New Jersey 1895 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | |
 | Mary ca. 1914 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | |
 | Moses in the Bullrushes 1921 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | |
 | Mountain Landscape, Highlands, North Carolina 1889 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | |
 | Palace of Justice, Tangier ca. 1912-1913 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | |
 | Portrait of the Artist's Wife 1897 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | |
 | Return to the Tomb 1914 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | |
 | Salome ca. 1900 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | |
 | Self-Portrait ca. 1910 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | |
 | Street in Tangier ca. 1910 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | 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... | GA | Anonymous |
 | Street Scene, Tangier (Crenelated Architecture) ca. 1910 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | |
 | Street Scene, Tangier (Man Leading Calf) ca. 1910 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | 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... | GA | Anonymous |
 | 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 | |
 | The Savior ca. 1900-1905 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | |
 | The Two Disciples at the Tomb c. 1906 Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL | GA | Anonymous | |
 | The Young Sabot Maker 1893 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous |
- Henry Ossawa Tanner
