Henry Ossawa Tanner

1859–1937 · Realism

Henry Ossawa Tanner was an American artist who spent much of his career in France. He became the first African-American painter to gain international acclaim. Tanner moved to Paris, France, in 1891 to study at the Académie Julian and gained acclaim in French artistic circles. In 1923, the French government elected Tanner chevalier of the Legion of Honor.

39 paintings

• The Two Disciples at the Tomb (c. 1906)
• Christ and His Mother Studying the Scriptures (1909)
• Salome (1900)
• Flight Into Egypt (1923)
• A View of Fes (1912)
• Abraham's Oak (1905)
• Angels Appearing before the Shepherds (1910)
• Daniel in the Lions' Den (1907)
• Fisherman's Devotions, Étaples (1916)
• Les Invalides, Paris (1896)
• Sand Dunes at Sunset, Atlantic City (1885)
• The Flight into Egypt (1899)
• The Good Shepherd (1902)
• The Miraculous Haul of Fishes (1913)
• The Seine (1902)
• Two Disciples at the Tomb (1906)
• Wynkoop House, Old Haarlem (1888)
• Portrait of the Artist's Wife (1897)
• The Canyon (1898)
• Departure into Egypt (At the Inn) (1898)
• The Good Shepherd (Atlas Mountains, Morocco) (1930)
• Haystacks (1930)
• He Healed the Sick (1930)
• Head of a Jew in Palestine
• Head of a Woman in Jerusalem (1898)
• Kansas City, Kansas (1898)
• The Man Who Rented Boats (1898)
• Moses in the Bullrushes (1921)
• Mother of Henry O. Tanner (1898)
• Scene of Algiers (1898)
• Study for Moses and the Burning Bush (1902)
• Flight into Egypt (1921)
• Lions in the Desert (1897)
• The Young Sabot Maker (1895)
• The Good Shepherd (c. 1918)
• The Seine (c. 1902)
• The Raising of Lazarus (1896)
• Portrait of the Artist's Mother (1897)
• The Annunciation (1898)