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Visiting Lecturer to Discuss Artist Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit on February 8 at CU African American Art Class
January 19, 2012
A Visiting Lecturer from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts will present a program about the new exhibition - Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit on February 8. The program will be held at Cheyney University in Room 114, Logan Hall at 4 pm. The program has been organized by Dr. Helene Domenic for the African American Art class.The campus community is invited to attend the lecture to learn about this wonderful African American artist’s work.
The subject of the Academy of Fine Art exhibition is the career and life of the artist Henry O. Tanner (1859-1937) - including the pioneering African-American artist’s upbringing in Philadelphia in the years after the Civil War; the artist’s success as an American expatriate artist at the highest levels of the international art world at the turn of the 20th century; Tanner’s role as a leader of an artist’s colony in rural France and his unique contributions in aid of American servicemen to the Red Cross efforts in WWI France; his modernist invigoration of religious painting deeply rooted in his own faith; Tanner’s depictions of the Holy Land and North Africa interpreted through comparison with contemporary French orientalist painting and photography; and the scientific and technical innovations of the artist’s oeuvre.
