Continuum: Over 100 Years of Black Art: 173 Tenth Avenue

Jan 31 - Mar 7, 2026

Henry Ossawa Tanner

Seascape - Jetty, ca. 1876-79

Oil on canvas

12 x 17 in
30.5 x 43.2 cm

Provenance

Freeman’s, Philadelphia, PA (private sale), circa 1940’s
Estate of Sadie T. M. Alexander, Philadelphia, PA
By descent to current owner, New York, NY, 1989

Exhibitions

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, 1983 (label on verso)Henry Ossawa Tanner, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, January 20 – April 14, 1991; DetroitInstitute of Arts, MI, May 12 – August 4, 1991; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, September 17 – November 24,1991; The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, CA, December 14, 1991 –March 1, 1992.

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