In honor of the many black voices that have influenced and continue to shape the culture, arts, and food ways of Southeastern Pennsylvania, today we’d like to give the spotlight to Horace Pippin (1888 ...

Artist Stories brings to light the careers of artists whose life stories and work may not be part of a traditional art history education. In this series, we’re sharing stories from art history as a ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Reimagined JET covers, on loan from the African American Museum of Art, are making staff, visitors, and patients stop in ...

Self-taught, American artist Horace Pippin grew up in West Chester, Pennsylvania. He lived through World War I, segregation and loss, as well as success, before his death in 1946. He created his own ...

“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 ...

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 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The collection measures 0.2 linear ...

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 ...