Henry Ossawa Tanner
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personAmerican, 1859–1937lock_openPublic domain: US, EU, UK, CA, CO, JP · 94% confidenceplay_circleStream Art
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Selected Works130

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31 Institutions
MoMA
MoMA
MoMA
MoMA
Met
Met
Met
Met
NGA Washington
NGA Washington
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Art Institute of Chicago
Cleveland Museum of Art
Musée d'Orsay
Musée d'Orsay
Musée d'Orsay
Milwaukee Art Museum
Milwaukee Art Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum

Previous Sales 9

For Sale 1

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Market110 auction results

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$169K
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$138K
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Jan 2026 · $368K
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Paintings: $138K medianSculpture/objects: $86.0K medianEditioned prints: $3.8K medianPosters/ephemera: $87.5K median
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Swann GalleriesSotheby'sChristie'sDuMouchellesGrogan & Company
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Publications2

Exhibition Catalog 1

Rizzoli · 1991

Survey 1

Thames & Hudson · 2021
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The Rockwell Museum in Corning, New York, will present 'Gateways: African American Art from the Key Collection' from May 23 to August 17, 2026, as par…
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ARTnews and Art in America have jointly compiled a list of the 100 best artworks about America, selected by their editors. The list spans from before …
cultureMay 28, 2026
Chicago museums have announced a slate of ambitious summer exhibitions, including the opening of the Obama Presidential Center, an Anne Frank exhibiti…
exhibitionsMay 20, 2026
This article profiles Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859–1937), the pioneering African American artist who achieved international fame in the 19th and early 20…
cultureMay 10, 2026
This profile explores the Upper West Side residence of Crystal McCrary McGuire and Raymond J. McGuire, a power couple deeply embedded in New York City…
cultureMay 9, 2026
The 58th Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh looks back at its own 130-year history, featuring a gallery dedicated to p…
reviewMay 4, 2026
The Birmingham Museum of Art (BMA) has opened its presentation of the traveling exhibition "Monet to Matisse: French Moderns, 1850–1950," which featur…
exhibitionsMay 4, 2026
Valerie Mercer, the lead curator of African American art at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), has spent over two decades building a collection that…
exhibitionsApr 24, 2026
The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) have launched "A Nation of Artists," a massive dual-museum e…
exhibitionsApr 17, 2026
The Birmingham Museum of Art (BMA) opens "Monet to Matisse: French Moderns, 1850–1950" on January 30, featuring over 100 masterworks from iconic artis…
exhibitionsJan 26, 2026
Megan Monaghan, director of arts at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy (SCH), organized an exhibition at the school's Barbara Crawford Gallery titled "E…
exhibitionsJan 15, 2026
Solange has launched the Saint Heron Community Library, a new initiative making rare and out-of-print art books available to the public for free borro…
newsSep 29, 2025
The Mary M. Torggler Fine Arts Center in Virginia will present two new exhibitions this fall: "Gateways: African American Art from the Key Collection"…
exhibitionsSep 22, 2025
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