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Street in Tangier

Object Details

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Henry Ossawa Tanner might have created this scene with a passage from the Gospel of Luke in mind. In the background, Mary and Joseph approach the inn at Bethlehem, represented by the shadowed entrance on the left (Mosby, Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1991). Tanner did not visit Tangier until 1912, which suggests that he probably painted this scene in his Paris studio from postcards or photographs of the Moroccan city.
Data Source
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Artist
Henry Ossawa Tanner, born Pittsburgh, PA 1859-died Paris, France 1937
Date
ca. 1910
Credit Line
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of James and Shirley Gordon
Medium
oil on fiberboard
Dimensions
13 5/8 x 10 1/2 in. (34.5 x 26.7 cm)
Type
Painting

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