Identifier: negroinliterat00braw (find matches)
Title: The Negro in literature and art in the United States
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Brawley, Benjamin Griffith, 1882-1939
Subjects: African American authors African American artists African American musicians American literature -- African American authors History and criticism
Publisher: New York, Duffield & Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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s at the Institute. Other typical subjects were The Last Gleam, The Hillside, and The Gray Dawn. Great hopes were awakened a few years ago by the landscapes of Richard L. Brown; and the portrait work of Edwin A. Harleston is destined to become better and better known. William E. Scott, of Indianapolis, is becoming more and more distinguished in mural work, landscape, and portraiture, and among all the painters of the race now working in this country is outstanding. He has spent several years in Paris. "La Pauvre Voisine", accepted by the Salon in 1912, was afterwards bought by the Argentine government. A second picture exhibited in the Salon in 1913, "La Misere", was reproduced in the French catalogue and took first prize at the Indiana State Fair the next year. "La Connoisseure" was exhibited in the Royal Academy in London in 1913. Mr. Scott has done the mural work in ten public schools in Chicago, four in Indianapolis, and especially was he commissioned by the city of Indianapolis to decorate two units
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HENRY O. TANNER ILL. in..... — • ■■» H M— Painters.—Henry 0. Tanner 105 in the city hospital, this task embracing three hundred lifesize figures. Some of his effects in coloring are very striking, and in several of his recent pictures he has emphasized racial subjects. The painter of assured fame and commanding position is Henry Ossawa Tanner. The early years of this artist were a record of singular struggle and sacrifice. Born in Pittsburgh in 1859, the son of a minister of very limited means, he received his early education in Philadelphia. For years he had to battle against uncertain health. In his thirteenth year, seeing an artist at work, he decided that he too would become a painter, and he afterwards became a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. While still a very young man, he attempted drawings of all sorts and sent these to various New York publishers, only to see them promptly returned. A check, however, for forty dollars for one that did not return encour

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