Henry Ossawa Tanner became one of America’s most famous Black artists by depicting dream-like Bible scenes like this one. Click here to see it on the Gallery’s site. Clicking the image on their page will open a viewer that allows you to zoom in and pan around.
In today’s episode we’ll find out how he went from working in a flour mill to a successful artistic career in Paris and what he has in common with another artist, Richard Norris Brooke. And we discover a mystery about one of his early works!
“The Good Shepherd” by Henry Ossawa Tanner, American, c. 1918
Corcoran Collection (The Evans-Tibbs Collection, Gift of Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr.)
SHOW NOTES (TRANSCRIPT)
“A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo
Episode theme is “Virtutes Instrumenti” by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4590-virtutes-instrumenti
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Artwork information
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.195513.html
https://www.antiquesandthearts.com/henry-ossawa-tanner-and-his-influence-in-america/
Tanner Bio
https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.1919.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ossawa_Tanner#cite_ref-eoaah_6-0
https://americanart.si.edu/artist/henry-ossawa-tanner-4742
Tanner painting technique
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWxErF_nzd4
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