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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. 16
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