Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Brunswick / Canada. 1828 - 1901
Idealized landscape, marine, portrait and still life painting
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1859 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - 1937 Etaples, France. Known for: Painting-religious, Orientalism, genre, figure, landscape.
America's first internationally renowned African-American artist, Henry Ossawa Tanner was born in Pittsburgh to a well-educated and devoutly religious family. When Henry was age 13, his father, the... Read full biography
America's first internationally renowned African-American artist, Henry Ossawa Tanner was born in Pittsburgh to a well-educated and devoutly religious family. When Henry was age 13, his father, the Reverend Benjamin Tucker Tanner, moved the family to Philadelphia. With the support of his parents... Read full biography
America's first internationally renowned African-American artist, Henry Ossawa Tanner was born in Pittsburgh to a well-educated and devoutly religious family. When Henry was age 13, his father, the Reverend Benjamin Tucker Tanner, moved the family to Philadelphia. With the support of his parents and inspiration from the art of the 1876 Philadelphia Exposition, he enrolled in the Pennsylvania Academy to study with Thomas Eakins who became a close friend. Tanner briefly painted animals and was... Read full biography
America's first internationally renowned African-American artist, Henry Ossawa Tanner was born in Pittsburgh to a well-educated and devoutly religious family. When Henry was age 13, his father, the Reverend Benjamin Tucker Tanner, moved the family to Philadelphia. With the support of his parents and inspiration from the art of the 1876 Philadelphia Exposition, he enrolled in the Pennsylvania Academy to study with Thomas Eakins who became a close friend. Tanner briefly painted animals and was determined to become the "American Landseer" in response to the demand for animal portraits. Between 1886 and 1887 Tanner was an illustrator for Harper Brothers, a publishing firm willing to advance black artists and writers. He then moved to Atlanta,... Read full biography
America's first internationally renowned African-American artist, Henry Ossawa Tanner was born in Pittsburgh to a well-educated and devoutly religious family. When Henry was age 13, his father, the Reverend Benjamin Tucker Tanner, moved the family to Philadelphia. With the support of his parents and inspiration from the art of the 1876 Philadelphia Exposition, he enrolled in the Pennsylvania Academy to study with Thomas Eakins who became a close friend. Tanner briefly painted animals and was determined to become the "American Landseer" in response to the demand for animal portraits. Between 1886 and 1887 Tanner was an illustrator for Harper Brothers, a publishing firm willing to advance black artists and writers. He then moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where he briefly and unsuccessfully ran a photography studio, but by 1891 he turned ba... Read full biography
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Georgia, New York / France. 1900 - 1980
Southern poverty images-paintings and history murals
Tennessee, New York / France. 1901 - 1979
Lyrical abstract painting, city scenes-jazz
Illinois, New York, California. 1918 - 1979
Black-American figure and genre and mural painting
New York, Kansas. 1899 - 1979
African-American genre painting, illustration, mural
New York, New Jersey. 1917 - 2000
Modernist naive urban genre-figure painting
Pennsylvania, New York. 1883 - 1965
Precisionist painting-architecture, landscape, interiors
New York, North Carolina. 1911 - 1988
Modernist African-American figure and landscape painting, collage
District Of Columbia, Massachusetts / Haiti. 1905 - 1998
African figure-genre, landscape, still life and mask painting, teaching
New York, Tennessee. 1904 - 1991
Street genre, figure, portrait, mural
New York. 1909 - 1979
Non objective, ethnic genre-view painting
District Of Columbia, New York / Mexico. 1915 - 2012
Abstract sculpture, modernist figure and portrait painting, graphics
Massachusetts, New Hampshire. 1862 - 1938
Upper-class female figure and portrait painting
Illinois, District Of Columbia. 1914 - 1985
Harlequin figure portrait paintings, clownsset design, playwright
Ohio, Michigan / England, Europe. 1821 - 1872
Hudson River landscape, portrait, floral still life and genre painting, murals
New York, North Carolina. 1907 - 1977
Abstract expressionist painting, portraits, lithography, murals
New York, Florida. 1892 - 1962
African-American portrait sculpture, educator
New York, Vermont / Spain. 1920 - 2011
Surreal genre and figure painting-social commentary
Virginia, Texas. 1924 - 2001
Narrative mural painting-African-American subjects
New York, Maine / France. 1890 - 1973
African-American figure, ethnic urban genre
Pennsylvania, Nebraska. 1879 - 1931
Landscape, genre, figure and coastal painting
Connecticut, New York. 1847 - 1923
Fruit and floral still life painting
New York, California, Mississippi / Jamaica. 1901 - 1989
Expresssionist monument and figure sculpture
District Of Columbia, South Carolina / Denmark, Norway. 1901 - 1970
Naive genre, figure, still life painting, serigraphs, drawing
District Of Columbia. 1891 - 1978
Non objective-optical imagery painting, teaching
Kentucky, New York, Massachusetts / Italy. 1937 - 1966
Figurative expressionist painting, religion
Ohio, New Jersey, Florida, New Mexico. 1915 - 1999
Figure in desolate landscape painting, surrealism, teaching
Virginia, Michigan / France. 1860 - 1932
Figure, genre and portrait easel painting, murals
New York, Georgia. 1930 - 2006
Ethnic genre painting, abstraction, collage
New York, Connecticut. 1852 - 1919
Impressionist landscape, portrait, and still life painting
Pennsylvania / England. 1783 - 1872
Portrait, historical, and landscape painting
New York, Illinois. 1916 - 2015
Modernist social life genre and nude women painting, graphics