Quote of the day
One of the first signs of the beginnings of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one will only in time come to hate.
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