ABSTRACT
At the beginning of the twentieth century, journalist and civil rights activist Ida Bell Wells-Barnett continued her campaign to eradicate the insidious form of vigilante justice known as lynching by writing an essay, "Lynch Law in America," that appeared in the January 1900 issue of the Boston-based magazine Arena. After spending a few months in Spain and stopping in Paris, Henry and Jessie returned to Mt. Kisco in August, Jessie was eight months pregnant. They must have mixed feelings finally being on American soil as a married couple. In Christ at the Home of Mary and Martha, Tanner keeps his palette deliberately dark to allow the light from candles burning on the table to bath the room in a warm golden glow that helps delineate the figures brightly from shadows. Compositionally work is deceptively simple yet extremely effective in capturing the miraculous nature of this event and Tanner managed to capture perfectly the human side of experiencing a divine occurrence.
