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Gateway, Tangier, Henry Ossawa Tanner, ca. 1910
Henry Ossawa Tanner, portraitHenry Ossawa TannerAmerican, 1859–1937

Gateway, Tangier

ca. 1910 · Painting · 57.2 × 48.3 cm

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Yes, on view now

Where is “Gateway, Tangier” now? Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 3rd Floor, 11B, Washington, D.C. Yes, on view now. Checked September 25, 2026.

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Washington, D.C., United States

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About the painting

After a trip to Algeria in 1908, Henry Ossawa Tanner traveled often from his Paris studio to the western coast of North Africa, where he visited Tangier, Morocco. He shared a fascination with painting the Orient with other French artists such as Eugène Delacroix, who said one must go to Tangier to experience the "rare influence of the sun, which gives penetrating light to all things." In this painting, Tanner captured the intensity of the Moroccan sun as well as Tangier's distinctive architecture. It is unclear whether Tanner painted this image in his Paris studio or on-site, but it may have been a study for a larger work, Entrance to the Casbah, which has a similar composition and was completed a couple of years later.

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Details

Accession number
1983.95.190

What it shows

TangierLandscapeWallRoadArchitectureGates and entrances

In the catalog

PaintingsOilAmerican paintingModernism20th century

Sources

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c. 1902 · National Gallery of Art

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c. 1906 · Art Institute of Chicago

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n.d. · Smithsonian American Art Museum

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n.d. · Smithsonian American Art Museum

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n.d. · Smithsonian American Art Museum

In the same room · Luce Foundation Center, 3rd Floor, 11B, Smithsonian American Art Museum

Museum page
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On the same theme · Tangier

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National Gallery of Art

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Allen Ginsberg

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Smithsonian American Art Museum

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Louis Comfort Tiffany

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Smithsonian American Art Museum

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