Background
Tanner, Henry Ossawa was born on June 21, 1859 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Benjamin Tucker and Sarah Elizabeth (Miller) Tanner.
Tanner, Henry Ossawa was born on June 21, 1859 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Benjamin Tucker and Sarah Elizabeth (Miller) Tanner.
Studied Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts under Thomas Eakins. Pupil of Jean Paul Laurens and Benjamin Constant, Paris.
Specialty: religious subjects. Honorary mention, Salon, 1896. 3d class medal, 1897.
2d class medal, 1907.
Walter Lippincott prize, Philadelphia, 1900. Harris prize, Chicago.
2d medal, Paris Exposition, 1900. 2d medal, Buffalo Exposition, 1901.
2d medal, Saint Louis Exposition, 1904.
Gold medal, San Francisco, 1915. Represented in the Luxembourg, the Wilstach Collection, Carnegie Institute, Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Chicago The Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles Art Gallery, Des Moines Art Gallery. Paintings include Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah in Metropolitan Museum, New York, The Banjo Lesson, 1894, The Thankful Poor, 1894, Christ and Nicodemus, Two Disciples at the Tomb.
Knight Legion of Honor.
North.A., 1927.
Street in Tangier
Lions in the Desert
The Three Marys
Entrance to the Casbah
Fishing Boats at Shore, Brittany
Untitled Landscape
Study of a Negro Man
Gate to the Casbah
Lion Drinking
Florida
A Mosque in Cairo
Concarneau
The Young Sabot Maker
Gate in Tangier
Fishermen at Sea
Untitled
Fauna
Seascape - Jetty
The Seine - Evening
Sand Dunes at Sunset, Atlantic City
The Man Who Rented Boats
Gateway Tangier
Study for The Jews' Wailing Place
Moroccan Man
Man Leading a Donkey in Front of the Palais de Justice, Tangier
Salome
Algiers
The Resurrection of Lazarus
Flight Into Egypt
Mary
Mary
Sunlight, Tangier
Sister Sarah
Palace of Justice, Tangier
Christ Learning to Read
Return of the Holy Women
Study for The Annunciation
Fishermen's Devotions, Étaples
Edge of the Forest
Bois d'Amour
Head of a Jew in Palestine
The Annunciation
The Good Shepherd
Ship in a Storm
Bishop Joseph Crane Hartzell
Georgia Landscape
Horse and Two Dogs in a Landscape
Bishop Benjamin Tucker Tanner
Daniel in the Lions' Den
The Bagpipe Lesson
Mountain Landscape, Highlands, North Carolina
Return at Night from the Market
Angels Appearing before the Shepherds
The Disciples See Christ Walking on the Water
Nicodemus Visiting Jesus
Seascape - Jetty
War Scene, Etaples, France
Christ with the Canaanite Woman and Her Daughter
A View in Palestine
Florida
Christ and His Mother Studying the Scriptures
Two Disciples at the Tomb
Booker T. Washington
Night
Landscape with Irises
Spinning by Firelight - The Boyhood of George Washington Gray
Landscape in Moonlight
Les Invalides
Christ and His Desciples on the Road to Bethany
Portrait of the Artist's Mother
Near East Scene
The Pilgrims of Emmaus
Study for The Bagpipe Lesson
The Banjo Lesson
'Pomp' at the Zoo
Study for Androcles
In Constantine
The Seine
Harbor Scene
The Bagpipe Player
View of the Seine Looking toward Notre Dame
Boy and Sheep Lying under a Tree
The Thankful Poor
Street Scene, Tangiers
Flight into Egypt
The House (Wall) in Blue
The Witch Hunt
Lion Licking Its Paw
Mountain Landscape, Highlands, North Carolina
Christ at the Home of Mary and Martha
Study for The Young Sabot Maker
Christ and His Desciples on the Sea of Galilee
Job and His Three Friends
Flight into Egypt. Palais de Justice, Tangier
Le Touquet
Interior of a Mosque, Cairo
Study for Nicodemus Visiting Jesus
Miraculous Haul of Fishes
The Visitation
The Holy Family
Served with American Red Cross in France 18 months, World War. Studio: Paris, France.
Married Jessie Macaulay Olssen, December 14, 1899 (deceased).