Ossawa Tanner Retrospective Premieres in Pennsylvania

"Resurrection of Lazarus" (1896) by Henry Ossawa Tanner

ALPHA OMEGA ARTSPENNSYLVANIA - 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 only two known sculptures that Tanner completed. The exhibition also includes Tanner's famed Resurrection of Lazarus (above), from the collection of the Musée d'Orsay, a career-making canvas that earned Tanner his first international praise when it was exhibited in 1897 and which has never crossed the Atlantic. Organized by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where the artist studied from 1879 to 1885, [it] will tour to the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. www.pafa.org/tanner/ [link]