The 19th-century painter who preached a lesson of shared humanity
Henry Ossawa Tanner readies for his close-up at Dallas Museum of Art.
The dramatic biblical illustrations of Gustave Doré (1832-1883), James Tissot (1836-1902), and others may infect viewers with art-headaches, wherein too much detail is too sharply focused, as if one has donned an inappropriately-strong glasses prescription. Henry Ossawa Tanner’s (1859-1937) religious art, conversely, offers gentle light and dreamy shado…