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Pittsburgh's Painter Takes Paris: Henry Ossawa Tanner and France 1910-1920

Presented by Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)

April 13-April 27, 2011

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In collaboration with The African American Museum and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Anna O. Marley will give a sneak peak into a retrospective exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts through an illustrated talk on the artist's work made in Paris and the French countryside in the 1910s. The son of a former slave and an African Methodist Episcopal (AME) bishop, Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937) grew up in Philadelphia just after the Civil War, part of an educated and cultured African American elite, and would go on to become one of the most renowned American artists living in France. For the first time in a generation, Tanner's greatest works will come together in a retrospective proudly presented by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where Tanner received his initial training by American icons like Thomas Eakins. Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit will be on view at PAFA from January 27 through April 15, 2012, and as part of PIFA, exhibition curator Anna O. Marley's talk will explore his life and work.

This event is part of the 2011 Philadelphia International Festival Of The Arts (PIFA).