Resource person: Audra Bullard - office@clehighlands.com

Description:

In this lecture Dr. Harvey sketches the career of Henry O. Tanner, from his roots in the AME Church to his studies with Thomas Eakins in Philadelphia and his blossoming career in Paris. Although he is best known for his religious subjects, painted after his arrival in Paris in 1892, Tanner has an important connection to Highlands, where he spent the summer of 1888 during a teaching stint in Atlanta at Clark University. His experiences here influenced two of his widely admired paintings of the African-American community, The Banjo Lesson (1893) and The Thankful Poor (1894), both exhibited to wide acclaim in Europe.

This program is in collaboration with the Highlands Historical Society.

Join us after Dr. Harvey’s presentation from 4:30 - 6:30 for a wine reception at High Country Wine & Provisions!

Eleanor Jones Harvey is senior curator of 18th and 19th century American art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. She earned a B.A. with distinction in art history at the University of Virginia, and a Ph.D. from Yale University. Dr. Harvey studies the intersection of landscape painting and American culture. In 2012 she organized The Civil War and American Art which then traveled to the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and her most recent project was Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture, on view at SAAM during 2020 and 2021.

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