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Henry Ossawa Tanner

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Henry Ossawa Tanner (June 21, 1859 – May 25, 1937) was an American artist and the first African-American painter to gain international acclaim. [1]

76 relations: Académie des Beaux-Arts, Académie Julian, Activism, African Methodist Episcopal Church, African-American art, Archives of American Art, Art exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Ashcan School, Atlanta, Avery College, Baltimore Museum of Art, Battle of Osawatomie, Benjamin Tucker Tanner, Bill Clinton, Birmingham Museum of Art, Camille Cosby, Clark Atlanta University, David Roberts (painter), Drawing, Etaples art colony, Eugène Delacroix, Expressionism, Frederick Douglass, Frederick Gutekunst, Gospel of Matthew, Green Room (White House), Gustave Courbet, Havertys, Henri Matisse, High Museum of Art, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, J. J. Haverty, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, Jean-Paul Laurens, Le Nain, Legion of Honour, Lions in the Desert, List of Orientalist artists, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Louvre, Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art, Musée d'Orsay, Muscarelle Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Norman Rockwell, Orientalism, Painting, ..., Palestine (region), Palmer Hayden, Paris, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Racism, Realism (arts), Robert Henri, Rodman Wanamaker, Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, Salon (Paris), Slavery in the United States, Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Literary Digest, Thomas Eakins, Two Centuries of Black American Art, Underground Railroad, Western Theological Seminary, White House, William Edouard Scott, World Digital Library, World War I, Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University. Expand index (26 more) »

Académie des Beaux-Arts

The Académie des Beaux-Arts (Academy of Fine Arts) is a French learned society.

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Académie Julian

The Académie Julian was a private art school for painting and sculpture founded in Paris, France, in 1867 by French painter and teacher Rodolphe Julian (1839–1907) that was active from 1868 through 1968.

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Activism

Activism consists of efforts to promote, impede, or direct social, political, economic, or environmental reform or stasis with the desire to make improvements in society.

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African Methodist Episcopal Church

The African Methodist Episcopal Church, usually called the A.M.E. Church or AME, is a predominantly African-American Methodist denomination based in the United States.

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African-American art

African-American art is a broad term describing the visual arts of the American black community (African Americans).

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Archives of American Art

The Archives of American Art is the largest collection of primary resources documenting the history of the visual arts in the United States.

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Art exhibition

An art exhibition is traditionally the space in which art objects (in the most general sense) meet an audience.

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Art Institute of Chicago

The Art Institute of Chicago, founded in 1879 and located in Chicago's Grant Park, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States.

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Ashcan School

The Ashcan School, also called the Ash Can School, was an artistic movement in the United States during the early 20th century that is best known for works portraying scenes of daily life in New York, often in the city's poorer neighborhoods.

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Atlanta

Atlanta is the capital city and most populous municipality of the state of Georgia in the United States.

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Avery College

Avery College was a former college dedicated to the education of African Americans.

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Baltimore Museum of Art

The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA), located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, is an art museum that was founded in 1914.

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Battle of Osawatomie

The Battle of Osawatomie took place on August 30, 1856 when 250-400 Border Ruffians led by John W. Reid attacked the town of Osawatomie.

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Benjamin Tucker Tanner

Benjamin Tucker Tanner (December 25, 1835 – January 14, 1923) was an African American clergyman and editor.

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Bill Clinton

William Jefferson Clinton (born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

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Birmingham Museum of Art

Founded in 1951, the Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham, Alabama, today has one of the finest collections in the Southeastern United States, with more than 24,000 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and decorative arts representing a numerous diverse cultures, including Asian, European, American, African, Pre-Columbian, and Native American.

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Camille Cosby

Camille Olivia Cosby (née Hanks; born March 20, 1944) is an American television producer, author, philanthropist, and the wife of comedian Bill Cosby.

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Clark Atlanta University

Clark Atlanta University is a private, historically black university in Atlanta, in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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David Roberts (painter)

David Roberts RA (24 October 179625 November 1864) was a Scottish painter.

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Drawing

Drawing is a form of visual art in which a person uses various drawing instruments to mark paper or another two-dimensional medium.

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Etaples art colony

The Etaples art colony consisted of artists working in the Étaples area of northern France at the turn of the 20th century.

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Eugène Delacroix

Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.

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Expressionism

Expressionism was a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century.

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Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey; – February 20, 1895) was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.

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Frederick Gutekunst

Frederick Gutekunst (September 25, 1831 - April 27, 1917) was possibly the most famous American photographer of his day.

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Gospel of Matthew

The Gospel According to Matthew (translit; also called the Gospel of Matthew or simply, Matthew) is the first book of the New Testament and one of the three synoptic gospels.

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Green Room (White House)

The Green Room is one of three state parlors on the first floor of the White House, the home of the President of the United States.

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Gustave Courbet

Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting.

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Havertys

Haverty Furniture Companies, Inc. ("Havertys") is a retail furniture company founded in 1885.

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Henri Matisse

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship.

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High Museum of Art

The High Museum of Art (colloquially the High), located in Atlanta, is a leading art museum in the Southeastern United States.

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International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement

The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is an international humanitarian movement with approximately 17 million volunteers, members and staff worldwide which was founded to protect human life and health, to ensure respect for all human beings, and to prevent and alleviate human suffering.

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J. J. Haverty

James Joseph "J.

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Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (November 2, 1699 – December 6, 1779) was an 18th-century French painter.

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Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant

Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant (also known as Benjamin Constant), born Jean-Joseph Constant (10 June 1845 – 26 May 1902), was a French painter and etcher best known for his Oriental subjects and portraits.

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Jean-Paul Laurens

Jean-Paul Laurens (28 March 1838 – 23 March 1921) was a French painter and sculptor, and one of the last major exponents of the French Academic style.

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Le Nain

The three Le Nain brothers were painters in 17th-century France: Antoine Le Nain (c.1599-1648), Louis Le Nain (c.1593-1648), and Mathieu Le Nain (1607–1677).

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Legion of Honour

The Legion of Honour, with its full name National Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), is the highest French order of merit for military and civil merits, established in 1802 by Napoléon Bonaparte and retained by all the divergent governments and regimes later holding power in France, up to the present.

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Lions in the Desert

Lions in the Desert is a painting by Henry Ossawa Tanner, painted in 1897–98 during a visit to the Middle East.

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List of Orientalist artists

This an incomplete list of artists who have produced works in an Orientalist style. Artists listed on this page may have worked across multiple genres, and it should not be assumed that all of their work is necessarily in the Orientalist genre.

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Los Angeles County Museum of Art

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles.

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Louvre

The Louvre, or the Louvre Museum, is the world's largest art museum and a historic monument in Paris, France.

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Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art

The Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art is a non-profit art museum located on the campus of St. Gregory's University in Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA.

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Musée d'Orsay

The Musée d'Orsay is a museum in Paris, France, on the Left Bank of the Seine.

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Muscarelle Museum of Art

The Muscarelle Museum of Art is a university museum affiliated with The College of William & Mary in Virginia.

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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), located in the Houston Museum District, Houston, is one of the largest museums in the United States.

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Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is an art museum in Kansas City, Missouri, known for its neoclassical architecture and extensive collection of Asian art.

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Norman Rockwell

Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978) was an American author, painter and illustrator.

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Orientalism

Orientalism is a term used by art historians and literary and cultural studies scholars for the imitation or depiction of aspects in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and East Asian cultures (Eastern world).

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Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (support base).

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Palestine (region)

Palestine (فلسطين,,; Παλαιστίνη, Palaistinē; Palaestina; פלשתינה. Palestina) is a geographic region in Western Asia.

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Palmer Hayden

Palmer C. Hayden (January 15, 1890 – February 18, 1973) was an American painter who depicted African-American life, landscapes, seascapes, and African influences.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania German: Pennsylvaani or Pennsilfaani), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is a museum and art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Philadelphia Museum of Art

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is an art museum originally chartered in 1876 for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.

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Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and is the county seat of Allegheny County.

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Racism

Racism is the belief in the superiority of one race over another, which often results in discrimination and prejudice towards people based on their race or ethnicity.

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Realism (arts)

Realism, sometimes called naturalism, in the arts is generally the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding artistic conventions, or implausible, exotic, and supernatural elements.

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Robert Henri

Robert Henri (June 24, 1865 – July 12, 1929) was an American painter and teacher.

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Rodman Wanamaker

Lewis Rodman Wanamaker (February 13, 1863 – March 9, 1928) was a department store magnate.

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Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander

Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander (January 2, 1898 – November 1, 1989), was the first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in economics in the United States (1921), and the first woman to receive a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

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Salon (Paris)

The Salon (Salon), or rarely Paris Salon (French: Salon de Paris), beginning in 1667 was the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

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Slavery in the United States

Slavery in the United States was the legal institution of human chattel enslavement, primarily of Africans and African Americans, that existed in the United States of America in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Smithsonian American Art Museum

The Smithsonian American Art Museum (commonly known as SAAM, and formerly the National Museum of American Art) is a museum in Washington, D.C., part of the Smithsonian Institution.

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The Literary Digest

The Literary Digest was an influential American general interest weekly magazine published by Funk & Wagnalls.

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Thomas Eakins

Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins (July 25, 1844 – June 25, 1916) was an American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator.

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Two Centuries of Black American Art

Two Centuries of Black American Art was a 1976 traveling exhibition of African-American art organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).

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Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-19th century, and used by African-American slaves to escape into free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause.

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Western Theological Seminary

The Western Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church in America, known as Western Theological Seminary (WTS) is a seminary located in Holland, Michigan, in the United States.

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White House

The White House is the official residence and workplace of the President of the United States.

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William Edouard Scott

William Edouard Scott (1884–1964) was an African-American artist.

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World Digital Library

The World Digital Library (WDL) is an international digital library operated by UNESCO and the United States Library of Congress.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University

The Zimmerli Art Museum is located on the Voorhees Mall of the campus of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

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References

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