Smithsonian American Art Museum
Scene of Algiers
Henry Ossawa Tanner, born Pittsburgh, PA 1859-died Paris, France 1937 · n.d.
Henry Ossawa Tanner went to Algeria in the winter of 1908, where he encountered many of these scenes. The French government subsidized artists who traveled to its colonies, and this incentive may have encouraged Tanner to visit Algeria. (Mosby, Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1991) In this painting the loose brushwork and patches of color suggest trees, hills, and a faintly discernible human figure.
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