The Good Shepherd (Atlas Mountains, Morocco)
Object Details
- Luce Center Label
- In 1912, Henry Ossawa Tanner traveled to Morocco to see the Atlas Mountains. In this painting he downplayed the story in favor of the impressive landscape itself. Tanner’s son Jesse remembered that The Good Shepherd was his father’s favorite subject. The artist believed that “God needs us to help fight with him against evil and we need God to guide us” (Jesse Tanner in Mathews, Henry Ossawa Tanner, American Artist, 1969).
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Robbins
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Date
- ca. 1930
- Object number
- 1983.95.198
- Artist
- Henry Ossawa Tanner, born Pittsburgh, PA 1859-died Paris, France 1937
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- oil on fiberboard
- Dimensions
- 29 7/8 x 36 in. (75.8 x 91.3 cm)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- On View
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2nd Floor, East Wing
- Topic
- Animal\sheep
- Occupation\farm\shepherd
- Landscape\Morocco
- Landscape\mountain\Atlas Mountains
- Religion\New Testament\Good Shepherd
- Record ID
- saam_1983.95.198
