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Article: Across Continents and Cultures: The Art and Life of Henry Ossawa Tanner.
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- School Arts
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- February 1, 1997
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Dewey F. Mosby. Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; Distributed by the University of Washington Press, Seattle, (800-441-4115), 1995. Illus., 118 pp., paperback, $25.00
The paintings of the first important African American artist, Henry Ossawa Tanner, were finally given their due in a 1995-96 traveling exhibit that was shown at major art museums in Kansas City, Dallas, and Chicago. This publication, issued by the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, details the life of Tanner, who died almost sixty years ago at the age of seventy-eight. More than 100 of Tanner's paintings and drawings are reproduced in this book, with fifty-five of his paintings in ...