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Henry Ossawa Tanner

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Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859 - 1937) was active/lived in Pennsylvania, Kansas / France.  Henry Tanner is known for Painting-religious, Orientalism, genre, figure, landscape.

America's first internationally renowned African-American artist, Henry Ossawa Tanner was born in Pittsburgh to a well-educated and devoutly religious family.  When Henry was age 13, his father, the Reverend Benjamin Tucker Tanner, moved the family to Philadelphia. 

With the support of his parents and inspiration from the art of the 1876 Philadelphia Exposition, he enrolled in the Pennsylvania Academy to study with Thomas Eakins who became a close friend.
Tanner briefly painted animals and was determined to become the "American Landseer" in response to the demand for animal portraits.  Between 1886 and 1887 Tanner was an illustrator for Harper Brothers, a publishing firm willing to advance black artists and writers. 

He then moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where he briefly and unsuccessfully ran a photography studio, but by 1891 he turned back to painting and sailed for France.
In Paris he studied at the Julian Academy with Benjamin C   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7213 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  128
Magazine References:  19

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19 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Henry Ossawa Tanner
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Realism and Its Response in Pennsylvania Painting August 2006 Fahlman, Betsy Yes
American Art Collector How an artist's reputation affects the value of a work of art April 2006 Jacob, Jane C.H. Yes
American Art Review Henry Ossawa Tanner and the Lure of Paris December 2005 Editor, American Art Review Yes
American Art Review The Culture of Neurasthenia in 19th December 2004 Editors, American Art Review Yes
Art & Antiques A & A Update September 2004 Editors, Art & Antiques Yes
The Magazine Antiques Museum Accessions November 2003 Gustafson, Eleanor H Yes
Art & Antiques 100 Top Treasures November 2003 Masello, Page, Goldstein Yes
ARTnews The Rise of African American Art September 2003 Kinsella, Eileen Yes
American Art Review Walter O Evans Collection June 2003 Benjamin, Tritobia Hayes Yes
Art & Antiques The Top 100 Collectors in America March 2003 Cochran, B.L. and R.D Yes
California Art Club Newsletter In the Land of Casanova: American February 2003 Adams, Elaine No
California Art Club Newsletter Frederick Carl Frieseke-His Society December 2001 Adams, Elaine No
American Art Review Dallas Museum of Art December 2001 Harvey, Eleanor; Lyle Gray Yes
American Art Review Evolution of African-American Art August 2000 Hampton, R Kumasi Yes
Art & Auction In the Galleries January 1998 Editors, Art & Auction No
Art & Auction Eye on American October 1997 Editors, Art & Auction Yes
American Art Review Yale University Art Gallery June 1997 Weltzein, Marie N Yes
Art & Antiques Sketchbook January 1997 Wallis, Stephen Yes
American Art Review African American Art June 1994 AR editors Yes
128 Book References for Henry Ossawa Tanner
Year Author Title Pages Color
2015 Pollack, Deborah C. Visual Art and the Urban Evolution of the New South 400 Yes
2012 Embury, Stuart; Brandon K. Ruud; Norman Geske; Jorge Daniel Veneciano, Introduction A Legacy of Giving: The Anna and Frank Hall Collection (The Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 Yes
2012 Lesage, Jean-Claude Myron Barlow, 1873-1937 A painter and his model
[email protected]		 80 Yes
2006 Craig, Susan (Compiler) Biographical Directory of Kansas Artists Active Before 1945 0 No
2006 Fahlman, Betsy (Essay) Artists of the Commonwealth: Realism and Its Response in Pennsylvania Painting, 1900-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 71 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 Women on the Verge: The Culture of Nineteenth-Century America
(Exhibition catalog)		 100 Yes
2004 Kennedy, Elizabeth (Editor) Chicago Modern 1893-1945: Pursuit of the New
(Exhibition catalog)		 176 Yes
2003 Harris, Michael D.; Moyo Okediji Colored Pictures: Race and Visual Representation 0 Yes
2003 Leeds, Valerie (Essay) Dreams and Dramas: Moonlight and Twilight in American Art (Hollis Taggart Galleries)
(Exhibition catalog)		 88 Yes
2003 Rasmussen, William M.S.; Robert S. Tilton Old Virginia: The Pursuit of a Pastoral Ideal 252 Yes
2002 Bruce, Marcus C. Henry Ossawa Tanner: A Spiritual Biography (Lives and Legacies) 0 Yes
2002 Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.; Cornel West The African-American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country 0 Yes
2002 Kennedy and Bourguignon(essays An American Point of View The Daniel J. Terra Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 194 Yes
2001 Driskell, David The Other Side of Color: African-American Art in the Collection of Camille O. and William H. Cosby Jr. 240 Yes
2000 Franklin, John Hope; Alfred A. Moss From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans (2 Volumes) 0 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1998 Calo, Mary Ann Critical Issues in American Art A Book of Readings 328 No
1998 Taha, Halima Collecting African American Art Works on Paper and Canvas 270 Yes
1997 Powell, Richard J Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century 256 Yes
1997 Riggs, Thomas (Editor); Howard Dobson (Preface) St. James Guide to Black Artists: Published in Association with Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 625 No
1996 Barbara and Peter Toohil Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know… 363 Yes
1996 Davis, John The Landscape of Belief Encountering the Holy Land in 19th Cent American Art 264 Yes
1996 Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols) 877 Yes
1996 Van Hook, Bailey Angels of Art Women and Art in American Society 1876-1914 287 No
1996 Wood, James N/T Edelstein The Art Institute of Chicago Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture 160 Yes
1995 Adams, H. and Johnson, K. Made in America Ten Centuries of American Art 192 Yes
1995 Janson, H W; Dora Jane Janson History of Art: A Survey of the Major Visual Arts From the Dawn of History to the Present Day 960 Yes
1995 Mosby, Dewey F Across Continents and Cultures The Art and Life of Henry Ossawa Tanner
(Exhibition catalog)		 108 Yes
1995 Weisberg, Gabriel P Redefining Genre French and American Painting 1850-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 111 Yes
1994 Craven, Wayne American Art History and Culture 687 Yes
1994 High Museum of Art American Paintings at the High Museum of Art 216 Yes
1994 Kelley, Harmon; D. Hyland, G. Coker, et all The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 68 Yes
1994 Neff, Emily/G T M Shackelford American Painters in the Age of Impressionism 144 Yes
1994 San Antonio Museum of Art African American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 67 Yes
1993 Bearden, Romare/Harry Henderson A History-African-American Artists From 1792 to the Present 542 Yes
1993 Ketner, Joseph D Emergence of the African-American Artist/Robert S Duncanson 1821-1872 233 Yes
1993 Perry, Regina A Free Within Ourselves: African-American Artists in the Collection of the National Museum of American Art 203 Yes
1992 Gerdts, William H (essay); Helene Ahrweiler, Roger Mandle Lasting Impressions: American Painters in France, 1865-1915
(Exhibition catalog)		 286 Yes
1992 National Gallery of Art American Paintings An Illustrated Catalogue
(Exhibition catalog)		 545 No
1992 Pennington, Estill Curtis A Southern Collection 246 Yes
1992 Stebbins, Theodore E The Lure of Italy American Artists and the Italian Experience
(Exhibition catalog)		 470 Yes
1992 Strazdes, Diana American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art 511 Yes
1991 Fort, Ilene/Michael Quick American Art A Catalogue/Los Angeles County 510 Yes
1991 Mosby, Dewey Henry Ossawa Tanner 307 Yes
1990 Boime, Albert The Art of Exclusion Representing Blacks in the 19th Century 256 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 622 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1990 Fink, Lois Marie; Albert Boime, Forward; Elizabeth Broun, Preface American Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons 430 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two) 396 Yes
1990 Goddard, Donald; Robert Rosenblum (Intro) American Painting 319 Yes
1990 McElroy, Guy C Facing History The Black Image in American Art 1710-1940
(Exhibition catalog)		 190 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)		 612 No
1989 Fresella-Lee, Nancy The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art 222 Yes
1989 Gerdts, Abigail Booth An American Collection Paintings and Sculpture from the NAD
(Exhibition catalog)		 208 Yes
1989 McElroy, Guy C (others) African American Artists 1880-1987 Selections from the Evans-Tibbs Collection 125 Yes
1989 Schwarz-Philadelphia American Impressionism and other movements
(Exhibition catalog)		 53 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 376 Yes
1988 Wilmerding, John American Masterpieces (revised) from the National Gallery of Art 208 Yes
1988 Wood, James N/Katherine Lee Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago 168 Yes
1987 Neff, Terry (editor) A Proud Heritage Two Centuries of American Art 300 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Hartigan, Lynda R Sharing Traditions Five Black Artists in 19th Century America
(Exhibition catalog)		 120 Yes
1985 Huneker, James G/Arnold Schwab Americans in the Arts 1890-1920 672 No
1984 Chambers, Bruce W Art and Artists of the South Robert P Coggins Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 149 Yes
1984 Pincus-Witten, Robert Eye to Eye Twenty Years of Art Criticism 232 No
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1982 Owens, Gwendolyn Golden Day / Silver Night Perceptions of Nature in American Art 1850-1910
(Exhibition catalog)		 111 Yes
1982 Terra Museum of American Art Solitude Inner Visions in American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 41 Yes
1981 Newark Museum American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 431 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1981 Williams, William James A Heritage of American Paintings From the National Gallery of Art 256 Yes
1980 Wilmerding, John American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art 180 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Brooklyn Museum American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works 133 Yes
1979 Doumato, Lamia American Drawing A Guide to Information Sources 246 No
1979 Eldredge, Charles C American Imagination and Symbolist Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 176 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1979 Strickler, Susan (Catalogue); William Hutton (Editor) The Toledo Museum of Art American Paintings 227 Yes
1978 Lewis, Samella Art: African American 246 Yes
1977 Hills, Patricia Turn-of-the-Century America Paintings, Graphics, Photographs 1890-1910
(Exhibition catalog)		 194 Yes
1977 Sweeney, J Gray Themes in American Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 220 Yes
1976 Boyle, Richard (Prefac); Frank Goodyear, Jr.; Louise Lippincott, et all In This Academy: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-1976
(Exhibition catalog)		 322 Yes
1976 Driskell, David C Two Centuries of Black American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 221 Yes
1976 Marcus, George H. (Editor) Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Art Philadelphia Museum of Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 166 Yes
1976 McShine, Kynaston The Natural Paradise: Painting in America 1800-1950 The Museum of Modern Art, New York
(Exhibition catalog)		 178 Yes
1976 Quick, Michael American Expatriate Painters of the Late Nineteenth Century (The Dayton Art Institute)
(Exhibition catalog)		 158 Yes
1975 Chambers, Bruce W American Paintings in the High Museum of Art/Bicentenial Catalogue 127 Yes
1975 Driskell, David C Amistad II Afro-American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 92 No
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1975 Mason, Lauris/Joan Ludman Print Reference Sources Bibliography 18th-20th Centuries 246 No
1975 National Academy of Design A Century and Half of American Art, 1825-1975
(Exhibition catalog)		 262 No
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1974 Davidson, Abraham A The Story of American Painting 168 Yes
1974 Hills, Patricia The Painters' America Rural and Urban Life 1810-1910
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 Yes
1974 Hoopes, Donelson/Nancy Moure American Narrative Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 192 Yes
1974 Parry, Ellwood The Indian and the Black Man The Image in American Art 189 No
1973 Carnegie Institute Catalogue of Painting Collection Museum of Art 196 Yes
1973 Cederholm, Theresa Dickason Afro-American Artists: A Bio-Bibliographical Directory 348 No
1973 Fine, Elsa Honig The Afro-American Artist A Search for Identity 310 Yes
1973 Naylor, Maria Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set)
(Exhibition catalog)		 1075 No
1972 Bearden, Romare/H Henderson Six Black Masters of American Art 120 Yes
1972 Dillenberger, Jane/J C Taylor The Hand and Spirit Religious Art in America 1700-1900
(Exhibition catalog)		 192 Yes
1972 Earle, Helen L Biographical Sketches of American Artists 370 No
1972 Forster, Peggy; Julie Snow Birkhimer; Mae Huntington Permanent Collection Catalog Springville Museum of Art 75 Yes
1972 Price, Vincent The Vincent Price Treasury of American Art 320 Yes
1971 Barrie, Erwin S (editor) Grand Central Art Galleries, Inc 1971 Year Book
(Exhibition catalog)		 68 Yes
1971 Locke, Alain The Negro in Art 224 No
1969 Mathews, Marcia Henry Ossawa Tanner American Artist 261 No
1969 National Collection/Fine Arts The Art of Henry O Tanner 1859-1937
(Exhibition catalog)		 32 Yes
1966 Larkin, Oliver W Art and Life in America Revised and Enlarged Edition 559 Yes
1961 Art Institute of Chicago Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago/A Catalogue of the Collection 490 Yes
1960 Dover, Cedric American Negro Art 186 Yes
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1943 Porter, James A Modern Negro Art 272 No
1939 Art Institute of Chicago Half a Century of American Art The Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 110 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1933 Harshe, Robert (Introduction) A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 215 No
1932 Hartmann, Sadekichi A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One 363 No
1931 Neuhaus, Eugen The History and Ideals of American Art 444 No
1925 National Academy of Design Commemorative Exhibition 1825-1925
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 No
1921 Bryant, Lorinda Munson American Pictures & their Painters 307 No
1915 Walter, John; Pedro Lemos Panama-Pacific Exposition: Catalogue of the Post-Exposition Exhibit 112 No
1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition (Editor) Official Catalogue of Exhibitors Department B, Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 281 No
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