The Two Disciples at the Tomb by Henry Ossawa Tanner
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The Two Disciples at the Tomb

Henry Ossawa Tanner · c. 1906

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. The artist; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1906.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Nineteenth Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Sculpture by American Artists</em>, Oct. 16–Nov. 29, 1906, cat. 295.
  • New York, American Art Galleries, <em>Religious Paintings by the Distinguished American Artist Mr. Henry O. Tanner</em>, Dec. 15–25, 1908, cat. 10.
  • Texas, Public Library of Fort Worth, <em>Exhibition of American Paintings</em>, 1910, no cat.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Half a Century of American Art</em>, Nov. 16, 1939–Jan. 7, 1940, cat. 160, pl. IX (ill.).
  • Chicago, South Side Community Art Center, <em>We Too Look at America</em>, May 1941, cat. 25.
  • Chicago, McCormick Place, <em>Century of Negro Progress Exposition</em>, Aug. 16–Sept. 2, 1963, no cat. no.
  • Washington, DC, Howard University, <em>Ten Afro–American Artists of the Nineteenth Century</em>, Feb. 3–Mar. 30, 1967, no cat. no., 23, 32 (ill.).
  • New York, Grand Central Art Galleries, <em>Exhibition of Paintings: Henry Ossawa Tanner</em>, Nov. 16–Dec. 7, 1967, no cat. no. (ill.).
  • Atlanta, Spelman College, <em>Henry O. Tanner, An Afro–American Romantic Realist</em>, Mar. 30–Apr. 30, 1969, cat. 7 (ill.)
  • Berkeley, University of California Art Museum, <em>The Hand and the Spirit: Religious Art in America 1770–1900</em>, June 27–Aug. 6, 1972, cat. 104; Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, Sep–Oct, 1972; Dallas Museum of Art, Dec. 10, 1972–Jan. 14, 1973; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Feb–Apr. 1973.
  • New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, <em>Selections of Nineteenth Century Afro–American Art</em>, June 19–Aug. 1, 1976, no cat. no.
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art, <em>Two Centuries of Black American Art</em>, Sept. 30–Nov. 21, 1976, cat. 54, 55 (ill.); Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Jan. 8–Feb. 20, 1977; Dallas Museum of Art, Mar. 30–May 15, 1977; Brooklyn Museum of Art, June 25–Aug. 21, 1977.

Literature

Published references

  • "Award For Negro Artist," <em>The Washington Post</em>, Oct. 18, 1906, 1.
  • "Sales," <em>American Art News</em> 5, no. 1 (Oct. 20, 1906): 1.
  • "Chicago Art News," <em>American Art News</em> 5, no. 2 (Oct. 27, 1906): 2.
  • "Tanner's Bible Pictures on View," <em>The Advocate</em> (Charleston, West Virginia), Dec. 31, 1908, 6.
  • "Exhibition of American Paintings in Texas," <em>Art and Progress</em> 1, no. 3 (Jan. 1910): 75.
  • "The Stickney Benefactions," <em>Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago</em> 3, no. 3 (Jan. 1910): 34.
  • "Henry O. Tanner's Biblical Pictures," <em>Fine Arts Journal</em> 24, no. 3 (Mar. 1911): 162 (ill.).
  • "Art Works Reproduced: Tanner Collection Exhibited at M Street High School," <em>The Washington Herald</em>, Mar. 30, 1911.
  • "Notes," <em>Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago</em> 7, no. 4 (Apr. 1914): 64.
  • "Again-A Free Ad for the Art Institute," <em>Chicago Daily Tribune</em>, Oct. 10, 1915, B9.
  • Karen Fisk, "The Annual American Exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago," <em>The American Magazine of Art</em> 17, no. 12 (Dec. 1926): 624–25.
  • Frederic J. Haskin, "Answers to Questions," <em>The Evening Star</em> (Washington, DC), May 25, 1938, A-10.

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