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Birth
1859 (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
Death
1937 (Etaples, France)
Lived/Active
Pennsylvania/Kansas / France
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painting-religious, Orientalism, genre, figure, landscape
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Black American Artists
San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
Paris Pre 1900
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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.
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