The Angelus Project: Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

Monday, July 31, 2017

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

This lovely and very contemporary Annunciation (actually over 100 years old) is by African-American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner.

In 1879, Tanner was a student of Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Recognized for his treatment of biblical themes, he later spent time in the Holy Land, a trip that was sponsored by an admiring Rodman Wanamaker (the department store magnate). Experiences of racism in Philadelphia and Atlanta impelled Tanner to move to France where his outstanding abilities were recognized and rewarded with honors. It is somewhat ironic that his masterpiece Annunciation, painted in Paris, is today in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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About the Angelus Project

We rightly admire Muslim neighbors and co-workers who put everything on hold five times a day in answer to the "call to prayer." But Christians have a call to prayer, too! It is the Angelus. Morning, noon and evening we are invited to pause and reaffirm our faith in the Incarnation: The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us (Jn. 1:14), because "God so loved the world that he sent his only Son" (Jn. 3:16).
The Angelus Project is a personal project of Sister Anne Flanagan, FSP, a Daughter of St Paul. Find out more about the media ministry of the Daughters of St Paul at DaughtersofStPaul.com.