Flight into Egypt, 1899

  • Henry Ossawa Tanner, American, 1859-1937

Oil on canvas

  • Unframed: 19 3/4 × 25 1/2 inches (50.2 × 64.8 cm)
  • 25 1/8 × 31 × 2 3/4 inches (63.8 × 78.7 × 7 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, African Art Gallery Committee Fund

69.452

Signed, lower left: H. O. Tanner

Signed and dated in brown paint, lower left: H. O. Tanner | Jerusalem 189[illegible]

Thomas Loguidice (New York, USA). Frederick Douglass Institute of Negro Arts and History, now Frederick Douglass Institute and Museum of African Art (Washington, D.C., USA)

1969-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

The Art of Henry O. Tanner. Exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, 1969, p. 31, no. 29. Bulletin of the DIA 55, no. 21 (1977): 106-108 (ill.). Cinco Siglos De Obras Maestras. Exh. cat., Museo de Jade. San Jose, Costa Rica, 1978, p. 41, no. 8 (ill.). Buick, Kirsten Pai. Bulletin of the DIA 86, no. 1/4 (2012): 17.

Henry Ossawa Tanner, Flight into Egypt, 1899, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, African Art Gallery Committee Fund, 69.452.