Henry Ossawa Tanner

This book examines the life and work of artist Henry Ossawa Tanner. He was one of the most celebrated American artists of his era, yet, largely because of his race, he quickly vanished from recorded accounts of the period in which he worked. This book helps restore his legacy.

Naurice Frank Woods, Jr. is Assistant Professor of African American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the former program head and has published recently in Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, American Art, and the Journal of Black Masculinity.

Prologue: Henry Ossawa Tanner, "Negro Painter" Introduction: Creativity and Racism in the Nineteenth Century 1. Of the Father and of the Son: the Rise of Benjamin and Henry Tanner 2. Into the South and Across the Sea: Atlanta and Paris Beckon 3. The American Interlude: Race and Religion on Canvas 4. Crossing Over Jordan: Salon Triumph and Spiritual Crisis 5. A Salon Master in a Modern Century 6. The Great War, the New Negro, and the Celestial City Epilogue: The Redemption of Memory