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Article: A journey for art and family: One woman's commitment to the legacy of her granduncle and his works.(Metropolitan Times)(Life Times)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- March 10, 1997
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When Rae Alexander-Minter arrived in Paris more than 15 years ago, she took a train to Le Douhet, a small village in southwest France.
She was looking for the son of the great 19th-century artist Henry Ossawa Tanner.
"I walked down the road to the Tanner house - a compound with a high gate and several houses," Mrs. Alexander-Minter says, smiling at the thought. "One had French doors and I knocked. This old man with a cane hobbled to the door and . . . I looked at him.
"He looked at my brown face and said, `You're a determined woman.' "
Perhaps this stubborn streak runs in the family. Henry Ossawa Tanner was Mrs. ...