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#day18 #blkhistorychallenge #blackhistorychallenge HENRY OSSAWA TANNER (1859-1937) One of the first African-American artists to achieve a reputation in both America and Europe, Henry worked in the Naturalist and genre traditions of American art. Though his work grew increasingly mainstream and allegorical, his early depictions of humble black folk about their daily lives are regarded as classic statements of African-American pride and dignity. The son of an African Methodist Episcopal minister, Benjamin Tucker Tanner, and his wife Sarah, who had escaped on the Underground Railroad as a child, Henry Tanner’s parents gave their son his middle name in honor of the Kansas town where the white militant Abolitionist John Brown had first launched his anti-slavery campaign. Tanner was raised primarily in Philadelphia and began to paint when he was thirteen. From 1879-1885 he studied with the dean of the American Naturalist school, Thomas Eakins, at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts before setting up his own Philadelphia studio. With the patronage of Bishop and Mrs. Hartzell, Tanner traveled to Europe in 1891, settling in Paris, which would become his primary residence for the remainder of his life. (Taken with instagram)

#day18 #blkhistorychallenge #blackhistorychallenge HENRY OSSAWA TANNER (1859-1937) One of the first African-American artists to achieve a reputation in both America and Europe, Henry worked in the Naturalist and genre traditions of American art. Though his work grew increasingly mainstream and allegorical, his early depictions of humble black folk about their daily lives are regarded as classic statements of African-American pride and dignity. The son of an African Methodist Episcopal minister, Benjamin Tucker Tanner, and his wife Sarah, who had escaped on the Underground Railroad as a child, Henry Tanner’s parents gave their son his middle name in honor of the Kansas town where the white militant Abolitionist John Brown had first launched his anti-slavery campaign. Tanner was raised primarily in Philadelphia and began to paint when he was thirteen. From 1879-1885 he studied with the dean of the American Naturalist school, Thomas Eakins, at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts before setting up his own Philadelphia studio. With the patronage of Bishop and Mrs. Hartzell, Tanner traveled to Europe in 1891, settling in Paris, which would become his primary residence for the remainder of his life. (Taken with instagram)

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