Tanner

Henry O. Tanner - The Banjo Lesson

Play the Banjo music...Can anyone tell me what type of instrument that is that we are listening to?  Have you ever played an instrument before?  What type of instruments have you played?  When you were learning to lay, what type of mood was your teacher in?

Introduce and show the picture.

Lecture on Tanner's Life

Wordstrips (In the Packet)

Henry Ossawa Tanner     What is the name of our artist today?

1859     What year was he born?

Pennsylvania     What state was he born in?

Methodist Bishop    What was his father?

Slave   What was his mother when she was born?

12 Years Old     How old was he when he started his first painting?

Landscapes, Seascapes and Animals     What were his earliest paintings of?

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art     What was the first Art School he attended?

Art Teacher     After his paintings did not sell, and his photography shop closed, what did Henry Tanner become?

Paris France     Tanner left America and went to ___________?

31 Years Old      How old was Tanner when he left to Paris?

Academy Julian     Where did he study Art in Paris?

The Banjo Lesson     What is the name of our Art Masterpiece Painting?

Holy Land     In 1897, Tanner went on a trip to the ___________

Jessie     Tanner's wife is named _____________

Opera Singer     Jessie was an ________________

Jesse     Tanner had one son named_____________

3-4     Tanner completed only ______ paintings a year.

1937     What year did Henry O. Tanner die?

Religious Painter    Henry O. Tanner was well-known as a ____________

Black American Artists     He was also a very important _____________

Pass out Candy bars.  Pasted Oh Henry bars on handle of banjo handout.