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An American Artist: Henry Ossewa Tanner |
| Section: THE ARTS / ART |
| Author: Eric Gibson |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 9/1/1991 |
| Size: 1,535 Words, 9,169 Characters |
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Henry Ossawa Tanner, the retrospective exhibition devoted to an artist who was both a student of Thomas Eakins, and perhaps the first truly important black artist, went on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art this winter and is now touring the country. Unfortunately, it is the most regrettable disappointment of this season's round of exhibitions.
Sometimes exhibitions come along that one knows will be disasters, such as the Museum of Modern Art's misguided High and Low, on the relationship between modern art and popular culture. Perhaps because one's expectations for them are so low to begin with, one is not surprised when they turn out to be as dismal as one suspected they would be, and one feels no particular sense of loss.
This was not the case with the Tanner show, howeve...
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...o life. His 1897 bust of his father, and to a lesser extent the one of his mother painted the same year, are his finest.
Given his obvious emotional identification with his sitters, this is not surprising. The portraits reveal a psychological depth and compassion that, though clearly indebted to Eakins, is nonetheless remarkable. Would that Tanner had created more works of this caliber.
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