Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, [Between 1900 and 1937].

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Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, [Between 1900 and 1937].

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Item is an autograph paragraph of Tanner's autobiography, describing his family's support of his decision to become an artist.

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Tanner, Henry Ossawa, 1859-1937

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African American painter Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937) was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Benjamin Tucker Tanner, a college-educated teacher and minister, and Sarah Miller Tanner, a former slave. Benjamin Tanner was very active in the African Methodist Episcopal (A. M. E.) Church, eventually becoming a bishop, and the family often moved while Henry was a small child. They settled in Philadelphia, and as a teenager, Tanner spent his free time painting, drawing, and...