Henry Ossawa Tanner, American-French painter and illustrator (died 1937)

Henry Ossawa Tanner

American painter (1859–1937)

Henry Ossawa Tanner was an American artist who spent much of his career in France. He became the first African-American painter to gain international acclaim. Tanner moved to Paris, France, in 1891 to study at the Académie Julian and gained acclaim in French artistic circles. In…