This artist's wife Jesse Macauley Olsson was the model for Mary in his painting of the annunciation, which depicts Gabriel as a column of light. His move to Palestine from 1897 to 1899 inspired his paintings Daniel in the Lion's Den and Nicodemus Visiting Jesus. Alain Locke attacked his painting of an old man sitting at a table saying grace for its lack of "racial realism," and his painting of a man sitting in a chair teaching a young boy to play a stringed instrument was inspired by Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem "A Banjo Song." A student of Thomas Eakins, for fifteen points, identify this artist of The Thankful Poor and The Banjo Lesson, the foremost African-American painter of the late 19th 
This artist's wife Jesse Macauley Olsson was the model for Mary in his painting of the annunciation, which depicts Gabriel as a column of light. His move to Palestine from 1897 to 1899 inspired his paintings Daniel in the Lion's Den and Nicodemus Visiting Jesus. Alain Locke attacked his painting of an old man sitting at a table saying grace for its lack of "racial realism," and his painting of a man sitting in a chair teaching a young boy to play a stringed instrument was inspired by Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem "A Banjo Song." A student of Thomas Eakins, for fifteen points, identify this artist of The Thankful Poor and The Banjo Lesson, the foremost African-American painter of the late 19th century.
This artist's wife Jesse Macauley Olsson was the model for Mary in his painting of the annunciation, which depicts Gabriel as a column of light.
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