1st Edition

Henry Ossawa Tanner Art, Faith, Race, and Legacy

By Naurice Frank Woods, Jr. Copyright 2018
280 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

280 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

280 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Over the last forty years, renewed interest in the career of Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859–1937) has vaulted him into expanding scholarly discourse on American art. Consequently, he has emerged as the most studied and recognized representative of African American art during the nineteenth century. In fact, Tanner, in the spirit of political correctness and racial inclusiveness, has gained a prominent... Read more

Prologue: Henry Ossawa Tanner, "Negro Painter"

Introduction: Creativity and Racism in the Nineteenth Century

1. Of the Father and of the Son: the Rise of Benjamin and Henry Tanner

2. Into the South and Across the Sea: Atlanta and Paris Beckon

3. The American Interlude: Race and Religion on Canvas

4. Crossing Over Jordan: Salon Triumph and Spiritual Crisis

5. A Salon Master in a Modern Century

6. The Great War, the New Negro, and the Celestial City

Epilogue: The Redemption of Memory

Biography

Naurice Frank Woods, Jr. is Assistant Professor of African American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the former program head and has published recently in Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, American Art, and the Journal of Black Masculinity.