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[[File:Henry%20Ossawa%20Tanner.jpg|right|thumb||Henry Ossawa Tanner (Wikipedia)]]'''Born: '''June 21, 1859

'''Died: '''May 25, 1937

'''Married: '''Jessie Olsson

'''Children: '''Jesse Tanner

'''Henry Ossawa Tanner '''was an American artist and the first African-American painter to gain international acclaim. In 1878, he made the first of three trips to [[Rainbow%20Inn|Rainbow Inn]] seeking a cure for a lingering disease, likely tuberculosis; he reported that the visit had helped him.  He returned in 1882 and 1886. <sup>1</sup>

[[File:Henry%20Ossawa%20Tanner%20-%20The%20Good%20Shepherd.jpg|right|thumb||Henry Ossawa Tanner - The Good Shepherd]]Tanner moved to [[%20|Paris]], France, in 1891 to study, and continued to live there after being accepted in French artistic circles.<sup>[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ossawa_Tanner#cite_note-2|[2]]]</sup> His painting entitled ''Daniel in the Lions' Den'' was accepted into the 1896 Salon, the official art exhibition of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acad%C3%A9mie_des_Beaux-Arts|Académie des Beaux-Arts]] in Paris.

After his own self-study in art as a young man, Tanner enrolled in 1879 at the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Academy_of_the_Fine_Arts|Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts]] in Philadelphia. The only black student, he became a favorite of the painter [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eakins|Thomas Eakins]], who had recently begun teaching there. Tanner made other connections among artists, including [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Henri|Robert Henri]]. In the late 1890s he was sponsored for a trip to the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem by Rodman Wanamaker, who was impressed by his paintings of biblical themes.

From ''Architectural Record'': The house once occupied by another important Black painter, Henry O. Tanner, still stands a few blocks away at 29th and Diamond in Philadelphia. A student of Thomas Eakins, his work is also on view at the museum.

'''Source:'''
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ossawa_Tanner#Marriage_and_family|Henry Ossawa Tanner]] on Wikipedia

'''Footnotes:'''# 
*  Sally Svenson, ''Blacks in the Adirondacks,'' pp. 120-121, Syracuse University Press, 2017.

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