Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Henry Ossawa Tanner - The Good Shepherd - Google Art Project.jpg

Henry Ossawa Tanner - The Good Shepherd
Voting period ends on 18 Sep 2014  at 10:10:56 (UTC)
 * Reason:Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859 – 1937) was an African-American artist. He was the first African-American painter to gain international acclaim, and he has been called "the greatest African American painter to date." But he was also a very interesting and original artist and a very good painter. His painting, Sand Dunes at Sunset, Atlantic City - is hanging in the White House, in the Green Room. It was the first painting by an African-American artist to be purchased for the permanent collection of the White House. (If anyone feels like writing an article on it and nominating it, here's the file File:Henry Ossawa Tanner - Sand Dunes at Sunset, Atlantic City - Google Art Project.jpg).
 * His painting, The Good Shepherd is part of a series of paintings he painted inspired by his wisit in Jerusalem. He was one of the painers that tried to paint biblical themes in an original enviroment - and in a very imaginative, ingenious, and innovational fashion. These pictures beside they have a dreamy quality, also evoke some of the athosphere of the ancient Jerusalem, and depict the biblical characters in a non-dramatical way, showing them in their every day lifes, talking or walking around - but not in a sensational,  spectacular or  overdramatic manner.


 * Articles in which this image appears:Henry Ossawa Tanner, Traum durch die Dämmerung
 * FP category for this image::Featured pictures
 * Creator:Henry Ossawa Tanner


 * Support as nominator – Hafspajen (talk) 10:10, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Is it cropped? The signature seems to be cut off. Belle (talk) 14:44, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I agree. Very nice painting, but it seems cropped. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:15, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Hm, too bad. Isn't possible to find an ALT? Crisco? Adam? It would be nice to have something on him. I feel that he as one of the "the greatest African American painter"s should have someting on FP. Hafspajen (talk) 08:20, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
 * There is no ALT - it looks like this. It is the frame, it is framed like this, it is covering the signature. Hafspajen (talk) 17:31, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I'd love to feature one of Tanner's works, but I'm worried we're not doing the painting justice if we're cutting off the sig (and parts of the painting). — Crisco 1492 (talk) 06:36, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Well, I'd love that too. But with this particular painting there is nothing we can go about the cut off signature. It is framed and exposed like this att the museum, it looks exactly like this - AT THE MUSEUM. We can try to ask the museum to take the work out of the frame and make a better scan maybe (?). The question is IF it is doable, I have seen many paintings taken out off the frame at a restaurator I was working for a coulpe of month - but they usually have a different color - then the rest of the picture. Probably because of the light from the sun - that causes oxidation. Hafspajen (talk) 09:13, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
 * The reason ... could have been that he put that signature so low that it was not possible to frame it in a different way ...Hafspajen (talk) 09:16, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 12:34, 18 September 2014 (UTC)