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Henry Ossawa Tanner
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Henry Ossawa Tanner, c. 1905. Tanner, Henry Ossawa: Daniel in the Lions' Den Abraham's Oak, oil on canvas by Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1905; in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. The Two Disciples at the Tomb, oil on canvas by Henry Ossawa Tanner, c. 1905; in the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Henry Ossawa Tanner: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Frederick Douglass Institute and the National Collection of Fine Arts, The Art of Henry O. Tanner (1969?); Marcia M. Mathews, Henry Ossawa Tanner: American Artist (1969, reissued 1994); Dewey F. Mosby, Darrel Sewell, and Rae Alexander Minter, Henry Ossawa Tanner (1991); Dewey F. Mosby, Across Continents and Cultures: The Art and Life of Henry Ossawa Tanner (1995).

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Anniversary information added. May 21, 2026
Anniversary information added. Jun 17, 2025
First paragraph modernization. Jan 30, 2024
Modified title of Web site: National Gallery of Art, Washington - Biography of Henry Ossawa Tanner. May 28, 2019
Add new Web site: ExplorePAhistory.com - Biography of Henry O. Tanner. Nov 10, 2014
Add new Web site: National Gallery of Art, Washington - Biography of Henry Ossawa Tanner. Jul 22, 2014
Add new Web site: BlackHistoryNow - Biography of Henry Ossawa Tanner. Jul 22, 2014
Add new Web site: BlackPast - Biography of Henry Ossawa Tanner. May 16, 2014
Added image of Henry Ossawa Tanner's painting Daniel in the Lions' Den. Dec 14, 2010
Added photographs. Jul 10, 2009
Added new Web site: ThinkQuest - Buiography of Henry Tanner. Feb 24, 2009
Article revised. Jan 18, 2002
Article added to new online database. Jan 12, 2000
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