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Study for Mary, Return from the Crucifixion 1933 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | ||
Study for Flight to Egypt ca. 1899-1923 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | 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 | |
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 | |
Street Scene, Tangier (Crenelated Architecture) 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 | |
Self-Portrait ca. 1910 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | ||
Salome ca. 1900 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | ||
Return to the Tomb 1914 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 |
- Henry Ossawa Tanner