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Henry Tanner (1859-1937)	Courtesy	Art	Institute	of	Chicago
The Two Disciples in the Tomb
Increasing opportunities in the nineteenth eentur\ brought several Negro artists to distinction in Eur-American art. Among the painters, none reached the eminence ot Henry Ossawa Tanner, whose romantic orientalism, intriguingly expressed, brought him wide acclaim.
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