Henry Ossawa Tanner Prints
1859–1937 · American · Realism
Wall art by Henry Ossawa Tanner, restored in-house and printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper.
8 prints · printed to order on heavyweight matte paper · framed or unframed
About Henry Ossawa Tanner
Henry Ossawa Tanner was born in Pittsburgh in June 1859, the son of a bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and grew up in Philadelphia, where he studied under Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy, the only Black student in his class. In 1891 he left for Paris to escape American racism, and never again lived in the United States. The Banjo Lesson and The Thankful Poor, painted on a visit home in 1893–94, are tender, unsentimental pictures of Black family life; in Paris he turned to religious subjects, and The Resurrection of Lazarus was bought by the French state in 1897, the Annunciation by Philadelphia in 1899. He painted in Palestine, Egypt and Brittany, was made a knight of the Legion of Honour in 1923, and died at Paris in May 1937. His glowing night scenes and quiet interiors print as warm, contemplative pictures for a living room or bedroom.