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Article: Tanner's piety seen in works; At Baltimore Museum.(ARTS & CULTURE)(ART)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- December 17, 2005
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Byline: Joanna Shaw-Eagle, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
BALTIMORE - The modernist art stew was bubbling in 1892 when Henry Ossawa Tanner, son of African Methodist Episcopal Church Bishop Benjamin Tucker Tanner, moved to Paris.
Pablo Picasso was living there, as was Henri Matisse. So were Claude Monet and Alfred Sisley, among other impressionists.
Other American expatriate artists had settled in the French capital, as well, but Tanner (1859-1937) departed from the rest by imbuing his work with a spirituality that captivated the Parisian art world and made him America's most famous black artist by the turn of the century.
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