Tag: Henry Tanner

  • This article examines Henry Ossawa Tanner’s complex sense of his own racial identity. Tanner’s conflict was born of the fact that in his personal adult life he walked a fragile line between his whiteness and his blackness; in France, he systematically worked to remove race from the equation of his life. The author also identifies…

  • Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit University of California Press February 2012 304 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780520270756 Hardback ISBN: 9780520270749 Anna O. Marley, Curator of Historical American Art Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts This beautiful book, companion publication to the exhibition of the same name, presents a complex overview of the life and career of the…

  • Beautifully written and illustrated by Faith Ringgold, this children’s book accompanies the major exhibition “Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit.”

  • This essay is a response to an article recently published by Will South titled “A Missing Question Mark: The Unknown Henry Ossawa Tanner” in the journal Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide. Tanner was the foremost African American artist of the late 19th century. He has emerged as an exemplar of Black achievement in the arts and is…

  • Painting the World’s Christ: Tanner, Hybridity, and the Blood of the Holy Land Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide: a journal of ninetheenth-century visual culture Volume 3, Issue 2 (Autumn 2004) Alan C. Braddock, Assistant Professor of Art History Tyler School of Art, Temple University Henry Ossawa Tanner’s global vision of Christ circa 1900 projected an ideal of…

  • Affirming Blackness: A Rebuttal to Will South’s “A Missing Question Mark: The Unknown Henry Ossawa Tanner” Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide: a journal of ninetheenth-century visual culture Volume 9, Issue 2 (Autumn 2010) Naurice Frank Woods, Visiting Assistant Professor of African American Studies University of North Carolina, Greensboro George Dimock, Associate Professor of Art History University of…