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| Keywords: Henry Ossawa Tanner - Bust of Benjamin Tucker Tanner - Walters 2833 - Three Quarter.jpg Henry Ossawa Tanner is regarded as one of the most distinguished African American painters He received his training at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia under Thomas Eakins and at the Académie Julian in Paris After 1895 he lived in Paris and painted religious works inspired by his travels in the Holy Land Tanner produced few portraits and only a couple of these were sculptures The bust is slightly less than life size and this combined with its slightly rough finish suggest that it is a study for another more finished piece Represented here is the artist's father Bishop Benjamin Tucker Tanner 1835-1923 a distinguished cleric in the African American Methodist Episcopal A M E Church In 1866 the senior Tanner was pastor at the Bethel A M E Church in Baltimore and later he served in Frederick Maryland Twenty years later he became a bishop in Kansas City Bishop Tanner was also a writer and poet and published books pertaining to the A M E Church 1894 painted or patinated plaster cm 38 1 31 8 24 1 accession number 28 33 34753 Sadie T M Alexander niece of the artist Steven L Jones African American Material Culture Philadelphia date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum 2004 by purchase Museum purchase with funds provided by the Eddie and Sylvia Brown Challenge Grant for the Acquistion of African American Art and the estate of Anna Fehl 2004 Signature On left side of base H O Tanner Henry O Tanner Modern Spirit Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Philadelphia; The Museum of Fine Arts Houston Houston; Cincinnati Art Museum Cincinnati 2012-2013 place of origin USA PD-old-auto 1937 Henry Ossawa Tanner Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Sculptures in the Walters Art Museum Busts of poets African Americans in 19th-century art Tanner | ||||
