The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) saw a record visitor turnout on the opening weekend of Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit, a major exhibition of artwork by African American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner, on view through April 15. The exhibition contains more than 100 works, including 12 paintings that had never been shown … Continue reading Record Numbers Turn Out for Tanner
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PAFA to Mount Definitive Exhibition on Henry Ossawa Tanner
A major exhibition of artwork by African-American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner will premiere at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), on view from January 27 through April 15, 2012. Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit will contain over 100 works, including 12 paintings that have never been shown in a Tanner retrospective and the … Continue reading PAFA to Mount Definitive Exhibition on Henry Ossawa Tanner
Artists Eakins Painted
In comparing portraits to dauguerreotypes, Ralph Waldo Emerson commented that "Daguerreotypes give the sculpture of the face, but omits of the expression, the painter aims at the expression and comes far short of Daguerre in the form and organization. But we must have the sea and the shore, the flowing and the fixed, in every … Continue reading Artists Eakins Painted
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