“I think my pictures out with my brain, and I tell my heart to go ahead,” Horace Pippin said in 1937 as his art career was taking off. Just one year later, four of Pippin’s pieces were part of the ...

The team behind the Caldecott Honor book A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams returns with a rewarding picture-book biography of self-taught African-American artist Horace Pippin. As ...

As a boy, Horace Pippin hung around the race track at Goshen, N. Y., sketching the trotters on odd scraps of paper. Later, as a husky moving-man, he used to ask for the job of crating people’s ...

For self-made artist and World War I soldier Horace Pippin - who served in the 369th African American infantry - war provided a formative experience that defined his life and work. His transformation ...

48.3 x 63.5 cm. (19 x 25 in.) New York, Bignou Gallery, Paintings by Horace Pippin, 1940, no. 5 (titled Portrait of Major-General Smedley D. Butler) Arts Club of Chicago, Exhibition of Paintings by ...

Art evolves as we evolve. As our tastes change, art and artists go in and out of fashion. El Greco (1541-1614), whose long-ignored paintings were revived by Modern artists, is a prime example. In 1920 ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The collection measures 0.2 linear feet and consists of three notebooks, notebook fragments, and two letters written by African American primitive ...

WEST CHESTER — Internationally acclaimed borough artist Horace Pippin was recognized last week during celebrations of his 135th birthday. A plaque was rededicated at his 327 W. Gay St. home Thursday, ...

Forty paintings and sculptures by folk and self-taught artists, such as Horace Pippin, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Clementine Hunter, Bill Traylor, and Felipe Benito Archuleta, were gifted to the American ...

Horace Pippin’s “Sunday Morning Breakfast” (1943) exudes charm. In a seemingly plain, straightforward way, it captures a black family sharing a meal on the Sabbath, a treasured moment in simpler times ...

On “Tell My Heart, the Pippin retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art & “Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series” at the Museum of Modern Art. Is it chance or design that brings major exhibitions ...

The American Folk Art Museum is celebrating its 60th anniversary with the acquisition of 40 works by artists including Horace Pippin, Bill Traylor, and Sister Gertrude Morgan, thanks to a gift from ...