Henry Ossawa Tanner
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Moonlight, Walls of Tangiers by Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1913
Apparently a wealthy backer had been funding his trips east for years — it started with a magazine job illustrating the Holy Land — and Morocco kept turning up in his paintings long after. They say he did a whole run of these night scenes there.
Daniel in the Lions' Den by Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1907
He moved to Paris partly to get away from how Black artists got treated back home, and this moody, almost colorless lighting became the thing he was known for there.
The Seine by Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1902
According to what I've read, he'd left America for Paris and stayed for good — supposedly he said he couldn't fight prejudice and paint at the same time. This was apparently a view close to where he lived, done small.