The Thankful Poor is an 1894 genre painting by the African-American painter Henry Ossawa Tanner. It depicts 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, Benjamin Tucker Tanner, 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. The painting received praise from critics upon its exhibition in Philadelphia during the spring of 1894, but it is also Tanner's last African-American genre work as the artist 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.
TheThankfulPoor is an 1894 genre painting by the African-American painter Henry Ossawa Tanner. It depicts two African Americans praying at a table, and...
works, including TheThankfulPoor and The Bagpipe Lesson, and he engaged in civil-rights work, speaking as a public figure at the 1893 Chicago Exposition...
AMERICAN PAINTER". [about the ThankfulPoor]:Here the influence of Impressionism is evident in both the softening and loosening of the brushstrokes used to render...
has been the subject of multiple portraits by artist Simmie Knox. In December 1981, Cosby purchased Henry Ossawa Tanner's TheThankfulPoor at Sotheby's...
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newspapers in 1894, the other two being The ThankfulPoor and The Banjo Lesson. It was also displayed at the 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition...
Gauguin). The painting is one of seven paintings of people of color that Tanner did, including The Banjo Lesson, TheThankfulPoor, Portrait of the Artist's...
– 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...
Lesson and TheThankfulPoor. The second image Mother of Henry O. is closer in style to his later impressionist-style paintings. Portrait of the Artist's...
for the Young Sabot Maker, watercolor and gouache on white wove paper. Artist's study, "The Young Sabot Maker" on the back of TheThankfulPoor; the latter...
clergyman and editor. He served as a bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church from 1886, and founded The Christian Recorder, an influential African...
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for portraying them with dignity. These were The Banjo Lesson and TheThankfulPoor. Among Hovenden's works was a series of portraits of two elderly African...
(February 18, 2004). "Books Of The Times; Take This Job and Be Thankful (for $6.80 an Hour)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on February 21,...
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again! His beauty, his sweetness & gentleness—really how can I ever be thankful enough to have such a Husband! ... to be called by names of tenderness...
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which, thankfully, is not the same as the lowest point in his career (that would be Jack and Jill, the cross-dressing debacle that began the downward...
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