Henry O Tanner Modern Spirit

Bringing together more than 100 drawings, photographs, prints, paintings, and sculptures, this retrospective posits Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859–1937) as more than a pioneering African American artist who blazed the trail for future generations of African American painters, but also as one of the most significant American expatriate artists of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth centuries. The exhibition will interpret his work in relation to the four places that were central to his career—the… Show more United States, Paris, the French countryside, and North Africa and the Holy Land—and in relation to contemporaneous French and American artist

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