The Thankful Poor (1894) — An oil on canvas painting by the African American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859 – 1937) — now at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art in Memphis, TN

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Henry Ossawa Tanner (June 21, 1859 – May 25, 1937) was an American artist.

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Henry Ossawa Tanner 🇺🇸 (b. 21.6.1859)
'The Thankful Poor' (1894)
Oil on canvas
90 cm × 112.4 cm

Owned by Bill Cosby for 39 years before being sold to Art Bridges in 2020.
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Henry Ossawa Tanner, Study for the Young Sabot Maker, 1893 https://t.co/XHSTaq7Fcn

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Christ and His Mother Studying the Scriptures by Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1909. Tanner's wife Jessie Olsson, an opera singer, and son Jesse were the models, and the artist took reference photos to use as aids to painting.

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Thursday Feb 24th - The Banjo Lesson (1893) by Henry Ossawa Tanner. Based on Tanner's illustration for a short story by Ruth McEnery Stuart this was painted after the artist emigrated to France, and was the first of his paintings accepted by the Paris Salon.

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Lion Drinking is an Impressionist oil on canvas painting created
by Henry Ossawa Tanner in 1897.

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