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Street Scene In India by Edwin Lord Weeks ca. 1884-1888 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Weeks, Edwin Lord | ||
Street Scene, Tangier (Crenelated Architecture) by Henry Ossawa Tanner ca. 1910 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Tanner, Henry Ossawa | ||
Street Scene, Tangier (Man Leading Calf) by Henry Ossawa Tanner ca. 1910 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Tanner, Henry Ossawa | 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... | |
Street Shrine by Jerome Myers 1931 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Myers, Jerome | ||
Study for Christ and Nicodemus on a Rooftop by Henry Ossawa Tanner ca. 1923 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Tanner, Henry Ossawa | 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... | |
Study For Drapery Of "Pursuit Of The Ideal" by Kenyon Cox 1891 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Cox, Kenyon | The final painting of Pursuit of the Ideal was part of United States' fine arts exhibit at the Paris Exposition in 1900. | |
Study for Flight to Egypt by Henry Ossawa Tanner ca. 1899-1923 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Tanner, Henry Ossawa | ||
Study for Mary, Return from the Crucifixion by Henry Ossawa Tanner 1933 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Tanner, Henry Ossawa | ||
Study for Rachel from The Mothers of the Bible by Henry Ossawa Tanner ca. 1898 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Tanner, Henry Ossawa | ||
Study for the Annunciation by Henry Ossawa Tanner ca. 1898 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Tanner, Henry Ossawa |
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