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Henry Ossawa Tanner (American, 1859-1937), The Good Shepherd, circa 1914. Oil on canvas. New Orleans Museum of Art, Museum purchase.
The Good Shepherd is a subject repeated several times in Tanner’s work, from the first version in 1914 to a study made on a visit to the Atlas Mountains, Morocco in 1930. The silhouetting of white forms in a dark space and the mystical content of Tanner’s paintings owe something to the French artist, Eugène Carrière, who painted melting, gauzy figures seen at dusk. While Tanner’s thick impasto style has been compared to that of his contemporary, American Romantic Albert Pinkham Ryder, this development seems to have been the painter’s own contribution, as was his preference for a palette of blue-violet tones.
