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Henry Ossawa Tanner

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Painting of wind-swept sand dunes with grasses and shrubs, waves and sailboats in the distance under a pale sunset sky.

Sand Dunes at Sunset, Atlantic City

1885

Loose oil painting of a hazy hillside town with pale rooftops, green shrubs in the foreground, and a distant tower under a pa

A View of Fes

1912

Two cloaked travelers ride a donkey across a pale plain beneath a large tree and a blue sky.

The Flight into Egypt

1907

Painting of a woman spinning by a fireplace while a boy tends firewood and a man sits in a plain wooden room.

Spinning By Firelight - The Boyhood of George Washington Gray

1894

Seated woman in a striped robe looks upward in an arched room, lit by a shaft of golden light beside a white bed.

The Annunciation, Philadelphia Museum of Art, W1899-1-1-pma, by Henry Ossawa Tanner

1898

Painting of a woman riding a donkey with a bearded man with a staff on a dirt road beneath olive trees, hills behind.

Flight into Egypt

1899

Moonlit landscape with a large tree and a cloaked figure standing beside it, under a pale blue night sky.

The Good Shepherd

1902

Veiled woman seated with a child in a dim interior, a bearded man standing in shadow beside a doorway with light.

The Holy Family

1909

Painting of the Seine at dusk with a bridge, silhouetted towers, a moored barge, and a figure on the riverbank.

The Seine

1902

Painting of fishermen in a rowboat hauling a net through green-blue sea, with a distant boat on the horizon.

The Miraculous Haul of Fishes

1913

Robed figures gather beneath a large tree in muted teal and ochre tones, with a kneeling figure in pale blue on the ground.

He Healed the Sick, by Henry Ossawa Tanner

1930

Dim interior with a seated man at a table lit by a glow, a woman in red standing beside him, and arched niches on the wall.

And He Disappeared out of Their Sight

1898

Watercolor of a wide sea under overcast sky, with a dark smoke plume rising from a distant ship on the horizon.

Crossing the Atlantic (Return Home)

1894

Loose painted study of a boy seen from behind in a sunlit green garden beneath a tree, with blossoming shrubs.

Study for the Bagpipe Lesson

1892

Loose oil landscape of rust-red hills, dark trees on both sides, and a pale grey sky with a winding path.

Untitled - Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1859

1859

Painting of a damaged wooden boat with a broken mast on calm pale green water, with a distant boat under a hazy sky.

The Wreck

1859

Painting of two cloaked travellers on a donkey along a pale road beside a large tree under a blue sky.

Flight into Egypt

1921

Charcoal study of two hands and forearms on aged paper, one hand gripping the wrist of the other arm.

Study of Two Hands

1930

Pastel study of a woman in white and a bearded man in purple walking a pale path through a hazy landscape.

Study for Flight to Egypt

1920

Pastel drawing of a moonlit marsh at night with reeds, reflective water, a glowing moon and a small wooden structure.

Marshes in New Jersey

1890

Kansas City, Kansas

Kansas City, Kansas

1890