The Good Shepherd (Atlas Mountains, Morocco)
ca. 1930
- Medium
- oil on fiberboard
- Dimensions
- 75.8 × 91.3 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-134480
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 Tanne…
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Robbins
Registry history
- ca. 1930 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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