Horace Pippin
African American artist (1888-1946) · United States · On the map · Artists · Died at 58
Horace Pippin was an American painter who painted a range of themes, including scenes inspired by his service in World War I, landscapes, portraits, and biblical subjects. Some of his best-known works address the U.S.'s history of slavery and racial segregation.
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Self-Portrait II, 1944, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Horace Pippin, The Ending of the War, Starting Home, 1930-1933. Philadelphia Museum of Art
Horace Pippin, Crucifixion, 1943. Menil Collection.
Horace Pippin, John Brown Going to His Hanging
Lady of the Lake, 1936, Oil on fabric
Mr. Prejudice painted by Horace Pippin in 1943About this person
He was the first Black artist to be the subject of a monograph, Selden Rodman's Horace Pippin, A Negro Painter in America (1947), and The New York Times eulogized him as "the most important Negro painter" in American history. He is buried at Chestnut Grove Cemetery Annex in West Goshen Township, Pennsylvania. A Pennsylvania State historical Marker at 327 Gay Street, West Chester, Pennsylvania, identifies his home at the time of his death and commemorates his accomplishments.
