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Henry Ossawa Tanner, The Banjo Lesson, 1893, oil on canvas, Hampton University Museum
Henry Ossawa Tanner was one of the first Black art students at Philadelphia’s Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. His father was a minister with the A.M.E. Church and his mother may have been born a slave in Virginia. Tanner also studied art in Paris, and this painting was Tanner's first accepted entry into the Paris Salon. The style is a combination of Tanner’s studies with American Realists and French Impressionists. The paintings has been in the collection of Hampton University since 1894. The painting is unusual because it may be the first painting by an African American to paint African Americans in a “genre” setting, meaning simple scenes of everyday life. This is a radical painting. It defies and denies the more commonly depicted stereotypes of Black people in the latter part of the 19th century. This is not caricature and these people are not objects of ridicule. In the same year he painted The Banjo Lesson, Tanner appeared as a Civil Rights speaker at the Chicago Columbian Exposition.
Henry Ossawa Tanner was one of the first Black art students at Philadelphia’s Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. His father was a minister with the A.M.E. Church and his mother may have been born a slave in Virginia. Tanner also studied art in Paris, and this painting was Tanner's first accepted entry into the Paris Salon. The style is a combination of Tanner’s studies with American Realists and French Impressionists. The paintings has been in the collection of Hampton University since 1894. The painting is unusual because it may be the first painting by an African American to paint African Americans in a “genre” setting, meaning simple scenes of everyday life. This is a radical painting. It defies and denies the more commonly depicted stereotypes of Black people in the latter part of the 19th century. This is not caricature and these people are not objects of ridicule. In the same year he painted The Banjo Lesson, Tanner appeared as a Civil Rights speaker at the Chicago Columbian Exposition.
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First Congregational Church
c/o Financial Secretary
79 Clinton Street
Concord, NH 03302