About the Artwork
Flight into Egypt
1899
Henry Ossawa Tanner
1859-1937
American
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Oil on canvas
Unframed: 19 3/4 × 25 1/2 inches (50.2 × 64.8 cm) Framed: 25 1/8 × 31 × 2 3/4 inches (63.8 × 78.7 × 7 cm)
Paintings
African American Art
Founders Society Purchase, African Art Gallery Committee Fund
69.452
Public Domain
Markings
Signed, lower left: H. O. Tanner
Signed and dated in brown paint, lower left: H. O. Tanner | Jerusalem 189[illegible]
Provenance
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)
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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.
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Credit Line for Reproduction
This work is in the public domain.
Henry Ossawa Tanner, Flight into Egypt, 1899, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, African Art Gallery Committee Fund, 69.452.
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