The Banjo Lesson is an 1893 oil painting by African-American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner. It depicts two African-Americans in a humble domestic setting:...
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Henry Ossawa Tanner (category Knights of the Legion of Honour)
in a realistic style that echoed that of Eakins. While works like The Banjo Lesson depicted everyday scenes of African American life, Tanner later painted...
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with Tanner's other paintings from the 1890s including The Banjo Lesson (1893) and The Young Sabot Maker (1895). The work is based on photographs Tanner...
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to the work. In parts of America, this was more widely popular in the 1890s than was The Banjo Lesson, due to sensitivity over racial relations. The painting...
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Steve Martin (redirect from Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass)
Performance in 2002. His first solo music album, The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo (2009) received the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album. Stephen...
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African Americans: The Banjo Lesson (1893) and The Thankful Poor (1894). However, he took a new direction following the completion of the latter. According...
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this was the painting for which he was most known, his "masterwork". Since his death in 1937, secular tastes have pushed The Banjo Lesson to the top place...
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painting, The Man with the Blue Sweater. Looking at stylistic representation of light in the painting revealed a similarity to The Banjo Lesson. In that...
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Sarah Elizabeth Tanner (category People of the African Methodist Episcopal church)
"The Banjo Lesson"... Charles McQuillen (3 January 2016). "Cross-Curricular Connect: The Banjo Lesson". [Note: this quote is about The Banjo Lesson; however...
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today for two paintings in the United States, The Banjo Lesson and The Thankful Poor, both about African-American families, the bulk of his artwork, including...
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Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts is a 2008 platform game developed by Rare and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox 360. Set eight years after...
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The American Banjo Museum in Oklahoma City is dedicated to the history of the banjo. The museum's exhibits document the rise of the banjo from its arrival...
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African-American art (section The Harlem Renaissance)
inspire uncontroversial imagery. The influential Henry Tanner did, too, in paintings like The Banjo Lesson and the Thankful Poor although those paintings...
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Frederick J. Bacon (redirect from Bacon Banjo Company)
artist on the five string banjo. He was also an inventor and entrepreneur, educator, composer, and designer and manufacturer of banjos. At the height of...
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The painting follows a theme Tanner used for his genre paintings, "age instructing youth", which can also be seen in The Bagpipe Lesson and The Banjo...
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African-American music (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the New International Encyclopedia)
Over time the banjo's construction adopted some European traditions such as a flat fingerboard. Some banjos had five strings, in contrast to the West African...
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of dim light subjects are common. Like this painting, some such as The Banjo Lesson and Nicodemus visiting Jesus feature multiple lights. Viewers can look...
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playing banjo at the age of 15. In 1971, he began his first banjo lessons with Jay Ungar in Garrison, NY. While studying with Ungar he learned the "Frailing...
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Thomas Hovenden (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
attend the school. Tanner would be famous for painting two images of African Americans, different for portraying them with dignity. These were The Banjo Lesson...
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List of paintings by Henry Ossawa Tanner (category Paintings based on the Hebrew Bible)
pp. 116–120. ISBN 978-0-8478-1346-9. Especially in the background, the brushwork of The Banjo Lesson is much looser, and strokes of color are more assertive...
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– April 26, 1901) was an American physician and the first woman to be licensed as a physician in the U.S. state of Alabama. Johnson was born Halle Tanner...
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History of African Americans in Philadelphia (redirect from History of the African-Americans in Philadelphia)
work, The Banjo Lesson. Also in 1893, Philadelphia high school student Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller created an art project that was included in The World's...
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Clive Palmer (musician) (category The Incredible String Band members)
member of the Incredible String Band. Born in Edmonton, North London, Palmer first went on stage at the age of 8, and took banjo lessons from the age of...
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Woodruff, The Banjo Player". Smart History, the Center for Public Art History. Dr. Leo G. Mazow; Dr. Beth Harris. Hale Woodruff, The Banjo Player. Smart...
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Jake Blount (section As The Moose Whisperers)
studies on early African-American folk music. He received his first banjo lessons from Lydia Hamessley, who would become his advisor, and delved into...
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African-American art organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). It "received greater visibility and validation from the mainstream art world than...
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Old Town School of Folk Music (category Commons link is the pagename)
offering guitar and banjo lessons in a communal teaching style and hosting performances by well-known folk musicians. Currently the school has an enrollment...
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Clarence L. Partee (redirect from The Cadenza)
began an office manager for the J. B. Schall banjo company, giving banjo lessons and meeting prominent banjo players of the time, including E. M. Hall...
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"Banjo lesson sparked graduate student's journey from Wall Street to Yale' Yale Bulletin and Calendar v. 26, n. 26 [1] Archived 2014-10-31 at the Wayback...
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Joel Sweeney (category People of Virginia in the American Civil War)
the Virginia Minstrels, Sweeney gave Whitlock a few banjo lessons around this time. In colonial America the banjo was known as an instrument of "the lower...
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