LECTURES & LITERATURE

    Art-at-Lunch: Henry Ossawa Tanner's Religious Nocturnes

    Art-at-Lunch: Henry Ossawa Tanner's Religious Nocturnes Image gallery

    Presented by Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA)

    November 18, 2009


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    Trained at PAFA, Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937) was one of the first African-American artists to receive international recognition. Tanner's mature works combined a preference for religious painting with a marked taste for a restricted palette associated to night settings. In the wake of Whistler's famous Nocturnes, which echo the experiments of the Symbolists, Tanner's night paintings retain a profound originality. Hélène Valance, Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses how in an era both fascinated with obscurity and transformed by such overwhelming discoveries as flash photography, X-rays and electricity, Tanner recast traditional religious scenes under a new, radically modern light.


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        Tickets: Event is free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served.

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        Dates:
        November 18, 2009

        Times:
        12 pm

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