Salome stands out from Henry Ossawa Tanner's other religious images, which are more conservative than this provocative painting. Salome's demand for the head of John the Baptist is one of the most lurid stories in the Bible.

The first African-American painter to ever gain international acclaim, treats the classic Annunciation motif in a rather unconventional manner

File:Henry Ossawa Tanner, The Disciples See Christ Walking on the Water, c. 1907.

Henry Ossawa Tanner's "The Thankful Poor"

Henry Ossawa Tanner Mary 1910

In addition to Tanner's lion, the academy acquired what is now its oldest work attributed to a woman artist, Patience Wright's wax profile of Washington.

Henry Ossawa Tanner took most of his themes from the New Testament, but also made several paintings of the story of Moses.

"Gateway, Tangier" (circa 1912), Henry Ossawa Tanner (American, 1859–1937), Oil on canvas. Saint Louis Art Museum.

Hermann Dudley Murphy, c. 1896

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