亨利·奥萨瓦·坦纳:现代精神

被公认为非裔美国艺术家的元老, 亨利·奥萨瓦·坦纳(亨利·奥萨瓦·坦纳, 1859-1937)开辟了一条通往国际成功的道路, 有力地影响了后来的年轻黑人艺术家. 

现代精神 探索艺术家亨利·奥萨瓦·坦纳的生活和事业的许多方面, 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; his role as a leader of an artist’s colony in rural France; 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; his 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 Tanner's oeuvre.
 
坦纳从1879年到1885年在PAFA学习, 世界杯买球盘口很自豪能组织这次展览, 通过新的学术研究提升坦纳的声誉，并在一代人的时间里首次将他最伟大的作品集中在一起.