Henry Ossawa Tanner · 1894
The Thankful Poor
Posters from $15 · Canvas from $39
An old Black man and a small boy bent in grace before their modest meal — Tanner's companion piece to The Banjo Lesson. Crystal Bridges Museum.
Up to 10 × 8 in · landscape
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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The story of The Thankful Poor
The Thankful Poor is an 1894 genre painting by the African-American painter Henry Ossawa Tanner. It depicts two African Americans praying at a table, and shares common themes with Tanner's other paintings from the 1890s including The Banjo Lesson (1893) and The Young Sabot Maker (1895). The work is based on photographs Tanner had taken, and is influenced by his views on education and race, which were in turn derived from those of his father, Benjamin Tucker Tanner, and the African Methodist Episcopal Church. The painting is considered a milestone in African-American art, notably for its countering of racial stereotypes.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Henry Ossawa Tanner
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 1923, the French government elected Tanner chevalier of the Legion of Honor.
All Henry Ossawa Tanner prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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