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Sunday, December 18, 2016

Sunday Drive: O Holy Night

Henry Ossawa Tanner, American (active France) - The Annunciation - Google Art Project

The Annunciation, Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1898.


As performed by the Choir of King's College, Cambridge:






2 comments:

Davis said...

H O Tanner was a superb painter raised and studied in Philadelphia, failing to find success in racist America he later moved to Paris where his work was hailed as brilliant.

Russ Manley said...

Was he black then? I'll have to look him up.

This painting seems startlingly modern to me, though done in 1898.

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