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 ...

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

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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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...