I recently went to the opening of the Henry Ossawa Tanner exhibit at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. It always throws me when I learn about an artist of Tanner's caliber that I had no previous knowledge of. How had I not heard of him?! Tanner's work is amazing-- the use of light, the feeling in his subject's faces. Tanner was one of the first, if not the first, to paint spiritually and not necessarily religiously. I highly suggest checking Tanner out if you have the chance. He was years before his time.
Above paintings are The Annunciation and The Three Marys
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