A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words Pic Of The Week: Part 2

The Banjo Player, Henry Ossawa Tanner. [SIDEBAR: A print of this painting hung in my house as a child.] Tweet

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A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words Pic Of The Week: Part 1

The Thankful Poor, Henry Ossawa Tanner. Tweet

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Black History Fact Of The Day: Henry Ossawa Tanner

Henry Ossawa Tanner is noted as the first African-American painter to gain international acclaim. He briefly taught drawing at Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, before he went to Paris to further explore and create art. Tweet

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