Henry Ossawa Tanner Biography:
Henry O. Tanner (1859-1937) was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. At age seventeen, Tanner toured the 1876 Centennial Art exhibition in Philadelphia. He saw the art, prints and posters of British, French, Italian, and Middle Eastern painters. At this exhibition he also came across the works of fellow African American artists, Edmonia Lewis and Edward Bannister. At age twenty-one, Tanner entered the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Here he was able to gain the necessary rudiments for his future artistic development.
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