The Annunciation, Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1898.
As performed by the Choir of King's College, Cambridge:
A gay man's view of the world from down Texas way
C I V I L M A R R I A G E I S A C I V I L R I G H T.A N D N O W I T ' S T H E L A W O F T H E L A N D.
2 comments:
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.
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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