Talk:List of paintings by Henry Ossawa Tanner

timeline[edit]

This is a brief timeline from various sources that need attribution if it is used. Moving it from the article to here, in case I decide to use it.Jacqke (talk) 01:14, 25 July 2023 (UTC) The authors of the sources give dates based on the facts that they have gathered. They don't always agree. In some cases, an author will tell why they chose one date over another. Henry Ossawa Tanner[reply]

1880-1882, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, studies art

[1879, sporadically through 1885]

1880, begins to exhibit in the Academy of Fine Arts shows.^[1]
1881-1882 [Philadelphia, living with parents, tries to start life as a painter]
1882 [Adirondacks, Rainbow Lake]

November 1887 [Jacksonville Florida, paints over the winter. visits Enterprise Florida]
February 1888 [returns to Phili from Florida]
Summer 1888 [Atlantic City, family retreat cottage]
1888 (summer/fall) moves to Atlanta
January 1889 [moves to Atlanta. opens photo gallery/art room]
1888-1890, Atlanta, running photo studio
Summer 1889 [visits Highlands, NC]
Fall 1889 [drawing instructor, Clark university]
1889, 1890, Clark University, teaching drawing to faculty

January 1891, departs for Europe [Jan 4 1891]

1891 [begins studies at Academie Julian. Jois American Art STudents' club. summer at Pont-Aven, Brittany]
1892 [summer in Concarneau, Brittany]
1893 [summer, poss trip to Brittany; summer, returns to US. Chicago Word's Columbian Expo]
1894 [visits TAllahassee, Florida]

-1897 [January- April 1897, trip to Palestine and Egypt] -Summer 1898, meets Jessie Olssen (A history of African-American artists : from 1792 to the presentp96)

1898-1899 [Oct 98-March 99, second trip to Near East]
1908 [visited Algeria in 1908]
1910 [Did not go to N. Africa in 1910 (page 201]
1912 [March-June, travels to Tangiers and other Moroccan cities]
August 1914, [his mother dies]
1914 World War I
1915 [early 1915, return visit to relatives in U.S., promote painting in Chicago]
June 25, 1916 [Thomas Eakins’s death]
late 1917 to late 1918 [came up with idea used by Red Cross, worked as manager of project. Helped him contribute to war effort at age 58.] p.244
Sept 1918, [applies to Red Cross for permission "permission to sketch scenes in the war zone"]
Nov 1918 [Armastice]
1925, wife Jessie dies

"Over the course of his career, he dabbled in Realism, Symbolism, Impressionism, and Orientalism, "^[2]

Realism in the detail shown in the Banjo Lesson, as well as the choosing ordinary people in everyday life. Impressionism in the painting technique of small strokes, in the focus on light, in the overall impression created where detail is lacking.
Symbolism in the illustrating of ideas rather than specific concrete things.
Orientalism in the near east and Biblical themes

Jacqke (talk) 01:14, 25 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Bearden, Romare; Henderson, Harry (Harry Brinton) (1993). A history of African-American artists : from 1792 to the present. New York: Pantheon Books. p. 84.
^ "Walters exhibiting a unique 19th century black show". The Star-Democrat. Easton, Maryland. 5 February 1986. p. 25. Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937) combined French Impressionist color, light, form and technique with Symbolist expression of ideas through form in his work.

different source[edit]

The following notes are fromA history of African-American artists : from 1792 to the present by Bearden, Romare, 1911-1988; Henderson, Harry (Harry Brinton), 1914-2003 published 1993, New York, Pantheon Books pages 78-109

Talks about his life. Talks about trends within his art and relationship to art movements

1902 Henry and Jessie living in Curtis' New York Artists' colony, winter 1902 and summer 1903.

25 Sept 1903, Jesse Tanner born in New York

Married couple settled Sceaux suburb, Paris, 1904. Lived with Jessie's parents

Bought house in artist's colony, Trepied, near Etaples.

World War I starts in August 1914 Tanner discharged Red Cross 1919 Tanners return to Tripied home after war Build new home in Tripied about 1924 Jessie diagnosed with cancer end of 1924 Jessie dies cancer Sept 8 1925

Great Depression stops his sales of paintings, switches from large paintings to "small intimate sketches on his favorite themes" Jacqke (talk) 19:35, 25 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Exhibition 1909[edit]

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-colorado-statesman-henry-ossawa-tann/128712652/

1900 Exhibition Christ and Nicodemus (visiting Jesus on the housetop)

The Return of the Holy Woman (with Calvary in the distance)

The Wise Men

The Good Shepherd (between two olive trees the shepard comes with his flock)

Abraham's oak Christ on the Road to Bethany The Flight into Egypt

Jacqke (talk) 19:41, 25 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

[fineart1-1] Bearden, Romare; Henderson, Harry (Harry Brinton) (1993). A history of African-American artists : from 1792 to the present. New York: Pantheon Books. p. 84.

[2] "Walters exhibiting a unique 19th century black show". The Star-Democrat. Easton, Maryland. 5 February 1986. p. 25. Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937) combined French Impressionist color, light, form and technique with Symbolist expression of ideas through form in his work.

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