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Article: Henry O. Tanner's painting 'Sand Dunes at Sunset, Atlantic City' is first Black-American art in White House. (racism drove the painter to France in 1891)
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- November 18, 1996
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Acquiring Henry Ossawa Tanner's painting Sand Dunes at Sunset, Atlantic City, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton achieved a two-year goal of securing the work of a famed Black-American artist for the White House.
The 58- by-30 inch oil canvas is described as "a landscape with a view across the cool gray of a shadowed beach to dunes made pink by the late afternoon sunlight." It was unveiled at a ceremony at the White House by President and Mrs. Clinton and will hang in the Green Room.
Tanner, a native of Pittsburgh, was born in 1859 to AME Church Bishop Benjamin Tucker Tanner, a second-generation free man, and his wife, Sarah, who was born into slavery ...