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Harlem, Ga (WJBF)- Georgia was one of the original 13 colonies in the United States and a lot is known about the history of some of the morning prominent areas. But, not much is widely known about the background of some of the smaller towns in our viewing area. I spent most of my childhood […]
IN A SMALL GALLERY on the second floor of Virginia’s Hampton University Museum hangs Henry Ossawa Tanner’s The Banjo Lesson. A young boy sits in the lap of his grandfather, learning to play the titular instrument, the pair surrounded by the evidence of life lived: clothes hung in the background, a loaf of bread and a white pitcher on a table, cooking pots at their feet. Color and shadow blend exquisitely to create a subtle glow that is cast onto the pair together at the fireside.Tanner is widely regarded as the most important Black American artist of the nineteenth century, and this 1893 o...