Quote of the day
That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.
Henry Ossawa Tanner
Born: June 21, 1859
Died: May 25, 1937 (aged 77)
Bio: Henry Ossawa Tanner was an American artist and the first African-American painter to gain international acclaim. Tanner moved to Paris in 1891 to study, where he continued to live after being accepted in French artistic circles.
Known for:
- The Banjo Lesson (1893)
- The Thankful Poor (1894)
- The Two Disciples at the Tomb (1906)
- Annunciation to the shepherds