Fishermen+at+Sea

Date: ca. 1913
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1983/1983.95.215_1a.jpg?itok=viDzj-gV width="240" height="314" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/fishermen-at-sea-23651"]] || Title: **Fishermen at Sea**

Artist: **Henry Ossawa Tanner** Born: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1859 Died: Paris, France 1937

Medium: oil on canvas Deminsions: 46 x 35 1/4 in. (116.9 x 89.5 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Jesse O. Tanner

Accession: 1983.95.215 || Conservators discovered this painting on the back of Henry Ossawa Tanner’s //Salomé// during restoration. Early in his career, Tanner painted marine scenes that showed man’s struggle with the sea, but by 1895 he was creating mostly religious works. In this painting, Tanner depicted a passage described in the book of Matthew: “But the boat was now in the middle of the sea, tossed by the waves, for the wind was contrary.” The surging sea pushes the boat to an almost vertical position, revealing the fishermen that Tanner rendered as dabs of paint.
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