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:...

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...

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...

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...

"The Banjo Lesson"... Charles McQuillen (3 January 2016). "Cross-Curricular Connect: The Banjo Lesson". [Note: this quote is about The Banjo Lesson; however...

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...

African Americans: The Banjo Lesson (1893) and The Thankful Poor (1894). However, he took a new direction following the completion of the latter. According...

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...

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...

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...

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...

inspire uncontroversial imagery. The influential Henry Tanner did, too, in paintings like The Banjo Lesson and the Thankful Poor although those paintings...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

offering guitar and banjo lessons in a communal teaching style and hosting performances by well-known folk musicians. Currently the school has an enrollment...

proceeded to launch the following schools: ArtistWorks Jazz & More Guitar Lessons with Andreas Oberg in June 2009 ArtistWorks Banjo Lessons with Tony Trischka...

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...

bluegrass banjo. He describes his playing as "Scruggs-style and Don Reno." He currently resides in Carmel, Indiana. Jessie started banjo lessons in 2002...

– 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...

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...

American banjo player and teacher best known for introducing authentic bluegrass banjo picking styles to the folk music community in the north and for the eclectic...

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...

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...

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...

clergyman and editor. He served as a bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church from 1886, and founded The Christian Recorder, an influential African...