File:Head of a Sheep, by Henry Ossawa Tanner.webp

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Description	English: Head of a Sheep, by Henry Ossawa Tanner. From Swann Auction Galleries: "HENRY OSSAWA TANNER (1859 - 1937) Head of a Sheep. Oil on canvas, mounted on board, circa 1880-81. Approximately 267x254 mm; 10 1/2x10 inches. Signed in oil, lower left recto. With a cropped oil study of a nude on the verso of the board. Tanner painted Head of a Sheep early in his studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts when he seized on the speciality of painting animals...enrolled at the Academy in December of 1879...After an interest in maritime painting, Tanner settled on painting animal subjects, with his stated desire "to become an American Landseer." https://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/Lots/auction-lot/HENRY-OSSAWA-TANNER-(1859---1937)-Head-of-a-Sheep?saleno=2581&lotNo=1&refNo=785955
Date	1880
Source	https://www.artnet.com/artists/henry-ossawa-tanner/4
Author	Henry Ossawa Tanner

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current	04:05, 25 July 2023		1,200 × 1,276 (2.37 MB)	Jacqke	higher resolution image from https://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/Lots/auction-lot/HENRY-OSSAWA-TANNER-(1859---1937)-Head-of-a-Sheep?saleno=2581&lotNo=1&refNo=785955
	11:29, 8 June 2023		903 × 960 (352 KB)	Jacqke	Uploaded a work by Henry Ossawa Tanner from https://www.artnet.com/artists/henry-ossawa-tanner/4 with UploadWizard