Episode 1508
The Thankful Poor
Mon, 2021-Jun-21 00:43 UTC
Length - 2:41
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The featured article for Monday, 21 June 2021 is The Thankful Poor.
The Thankful Poor is an 1894 painting by African-American painter Henry Ossawa Tanner. It is a genre painting of two African Americans praying at a table, and shares common themes 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 had taken, and is influenced by his views on education and race, which were in turn derived from those of his father and the African Methodist Episcopal Church. The painting is considered a milestone in African-American art, notably for its countering of racial stereotypes.
Following his return to the United States in 1893, Tanner became more racially aware and chose to use artwork including The Thankful Poor as a means of portraying African-American culture in a dignified manner. Despite its popularity with critics, it was Tanner's last African-American genre work before he began to focus on biblical scenes.
After remaining hidden for years, the painting was discovered in a storage closet of the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf in 1970, before being purchased by Camille and Bill Cosby in 1981 for their private collection. In 2020, the painting was sold by the Cosbys to Art Bridges, a foundation created by Alice Walton for loaning artwork. The Thankful Poor has been exhibited at the National Museum of African Art, and a preparatory study is held by the DuSable Museum of African American History.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:43 UTC on Monday, 21 June 2021.
For the full current version of the article, see The Thankful Poor on Wikipedia.
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