12 Henry Ossawa Tanner

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TitleThe Banjo Lesson

Creator nameTanner, Henry Ossawa

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1893

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions49 × 35 1/2 in. (124.46 × 90.17 cm)

LocationHampton University Museum, Virginia

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsAfrican American musicians in artChildren, Black, in artPainting, American--19th centuryArtists, BlackAfrican American artists

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5. A New Internationalism, 1885–1900

John Davis, Michael Leja

Art of the United States, 1750–2000: Primary Sources

Cultural commentators writing about the American scene during the 1880s and 1890s might be forgiven for assuming that they lived in the most important place on Earth at the most exciting time in modern history ...

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John Davis, Michael Leja

PublisherTerra Foundation for American Art

Related print edition pages: pp.210-248

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00199.006

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Chapter subject tags:Artists' writingsUnited States--In artImpressionism (Art)--United StatesArts and societyArt--Studying and teaching

1. After Slavery

Jacqueline Francis

Description: The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V: The Twentieth Century, Part 2: The...

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V: The Twentieth Century, Part 2: The Rise of Black Artists

In February 1940 the exhibition Bill Traylor—People’s Artist opened at the New South School and Gallery, a Montgomery, Alabama, cultural center dedicated to showing modern art and broadening and fostering southern culture. Miriam Rogers Fowler, “New South...

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Jacqueline Francis

PublisherHarvard University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.11-52

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00146.005

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Chapter subject tags:African American artists--United States--20th centuryAfrican diasporaTraylor, Bill, 1856-1949Racism in artLynching in artStereotypes (Social psychology) in artTanner, Henry Ossawa, 1859-1937Sculpture, American--20th centuryDouglas, AaronHarlem RenaissanceMural painting and decoration, American--19th centuryPippin, Horace, 1888-1946Thrash, Dox, 1892-1965Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000

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