# 1486 - 1973 8c Henry O. Tanner
1973 8¢ Henry O. Tanner
American Arts
Issue Date: September 10, 1973
First City: Pittsburgh, PA
Quantity Issued: 146,008,00
Birth Of Henry O. Tanner
Tanner was the son of an African Methodist Episcopal minister. His parents had escaped slavery on the Underground Railroad as children. They gave him the middle name “Ossawa” in honor of the Kansas town Osawatomie, where abolitionist John Brown fought a battle against the pro-slavery Border Ruffians.
Tanner studied under famed artists including Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens. He also spent a great deal of time at the Louvre, studying the works of Gustave Courbet, Jean-Baptiste Chardin and Louis Le Nain. Tanner then made his home at the Étaples art colony in Normandy. During this time he began to transition from painting scenes of the sea to biblical images. His 1896 painting, Daniel in the Lions’ Den, was accepted into the Salon and The Resurrection of Lazarus helped to establish him as one of France’s top artists.
Click here to view some of Tanner’s paintings.
1973 8¢ Henry O. Tanner
American Arts
Issue Date: September 10, 1973
First City: Pittsburgh, PA
Quantity Issued: 146,008,00
Birth Of Henry O. Tanner
Tanner was the son of an African Methodist Episcopal minister. His parents had escaped slavery on the Underground Railroad as children. They gave him the middle name “Ossawa” in honor of the Kansas town Osawatomie, where abolitionist John Brown fought a battle against the pro-slavery Border Ruffians.
Tanner studied under famed artists including Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens. He also spent a great deal of time at the Louvre, studying the works of Gustave Courbet, Jean-Baptiste Chardin and Louis Le Nain. Tanner then made his home at the Étaples art colony in Normandy. During this time he began to transition from painting scenes of the sea to biblical images. His 1896 painting, Daniel in the Lions’ Den, was accepted into the Salon and The Resurrection of Lazarus helped to establish him as one of France’s top artists.
Click here to view some of Tanner’s paintings.