Philadelphia Museum of Art book on Henry Ossawa Tanner, published 1991, 105 ill.

Beautifully illustrated book (105 photos) of Henry Ossawa Tanner's paintings from the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Published in 1991 as a catalog of the traveling art exhibit of Tanner's work. Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937) was an African-American painter from Philadelphia, trained at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and in Paris at Academie Julian. His career was inspired by his world of both a child during the Civil War thru to a senior during the Great Depression- all of that history painted as a gentle protest and a dream for a better tomorrow.