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Street Scene In India

by Edwin Lord Weeks

ca. 1884-1888
oil on canvas
28 7/8 x 23 3/4 in. (73.3 x 60.2 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Weeks, Edwin Lord 
Street Scene, Tangier (Crenelated Architecture)

by Henry Ossawa Tanner

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.

Tanner, Henry Ossawa 
Street Scene, Tangier (Man Leading Calf)

by Henry Ossawa Tanner

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.

Tanner, Henry Ossawanotes
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
oil on canvas
40 1/8 x 30 in. (101.9 x 76.2 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Myers, Jerome 
Study for Christ and Nicodemus on a Rooftop

by Henry Ossawa Tanner

ca. 1923
oil on wood panel
9 1/2 x 13 in. (24.0 x 33.0 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Tanner, Henry Ossawanotes
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
oil on canvas
18 1/4 x 14 7/8 in. (46.4 x 37.8 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Cox, Kenyonnotes
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
pencil and pastel on paper
8 1/4 x 11 1/8 in. (21.0 x 28.2 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Tanner, Henry Ossawa 
Study for Mary, Return from the Crucifixion

by Henry Ossawa Tanner

1933
pencil and conte crayon on paper mounted on paperboard
15 1/8 x 14 1/8 in. (38.3 x 36.0 cm)

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
charcoal on paper
23 x 13 5/8 in. (58.4 x 34.6 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Tanner, Henry Ossawa 
Study for the Annunciation

by Henry Ossawa Tanner

ca. 1898
oil on wood
8 1/2 x 10 3/4 in. (21.5 x 27.4 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Tanner, Henry Ossawa 
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