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List of illustrations

  • Self-Portrait
  • Dr. Albert C. Barnes, and Horace Pippin at the opening of the Third Annual Exhibition, The Pyramid Club, Philadelphia
  • Lush Valleys, Landscape, label fragment
  • The Bear Hunt I
  • The Bear Hunt II
  • Horace Pippin burning Man Seated near a Stove
  • Horace Pippin carrying Amish Letter Writer
  • Touching Up (Small Version)
  • Miss Louisa
  • The Repast of the Lion
  • Children
  • Pages from Horace Pippin’s Autobiography, First World War
  • The Ending of the War, Starting Home
  • The Ending of the War, Starting Home, verso
  • Christ
  • Paul B. Dague, Deputy Sheriff of Chester County
  • Outpost Raid, Champagne Sector
  • American, French, British and German gas masks
  • Shell Holes and Observation Balloon, Champagne Sector
  • Gas Alarm Outpost, Argonne
  • Sentry Box Outside Regimental Headquarters, 369th Regt. Inf., 93rd Division
  • Dogfight over the Trenches
  • After Supper
  • The Milkman of Goshen
  • After Supper
  • Sleepers
  • The Domino Game
  • Sunday Morning Breakfast
  • Supper Time
  • School Studies
  • Saturday Night Bath
  • The Barracks
  • Study for The Barracks
  • French infantrymen picking lice from their clothing
  • Foxhole (Unterstand)
  • Cabin in the Cotton
  • Autumn Scene near Durham, N.C.
  • Negro sharecropper house
  • Iron pot for heating water
  • The Blue Tiger
  • Georgia Cotton Crop
  • Waiting
  • Giving Thanks
  • The Whipping
  • The Knowledge of God
  • Old Black Joe
  • Advertisement for Capehart-Panamuse
  • Twenty-third Annual National Exhibition of Advertising Art, Rockefeller Center Galleries, New York
  • Study for Vogue Magazine
  • Old King Cotton
  • Negro sharecropper house
  • Victory Vase
  • Cabin in the Cotton
  • Cabin in the Cotton (Cotton Plantation)
  • Uncle Tom
  • The Park Bench
  • Major-General Smedley D. Butler, U.S.M.C, Retired
  • Smedley Butler
  • Woman of Samaria
  • Prototype for The Woman at Samaria
  • Chester County Courthouse
  • Court House—West Chester, Pennsylvania
  • Birmingham Meeting House (Hicksite)
  • Birmingham Meeting House
  • Birmingham Meeting House in Spring
  • Birmingham Meeting House in Late Summer
  • Birmingham Meeting House in Summertime
  • The Getaway
  • The Getaway, verso
  • Fox in the Snow (The Fox)
  • The Fox Hunt
  • Ariadne Asleep on the Isle of Naxos
  • The Lady of the Lake
  • The Lady of the Lake, verso
  • Lush Valleys, Landscape
  • In Meditation, Fancy Free
  • Delaware Water Gap
  • Holy Mountain I
  • The Peaceable Kingdom
  • The Last Moments of John Brown
  • Abraham Lincoln and His Father Building Their Cabin on Pigeon Creek
  • Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator, Pardons the Sentry
  • Antietam, Md. Allan Pinkerton, President Lincoln, and Maj. Gen. John A. McClernand; another view
  • Antietam, Md. President Lincoln and Gen. George B. McClellan in the General’s Tent
  • Abe Lincoln as the Good Samaritan
  • Old Abe's First Book
  • John Brown Reading His Bible
  • John Brown
  • The Trial of John Brown
  • Governor Wise, of Virginia, and District Attorney Ould Examining the Wounded Prisoners in the Presence of the Officers, the Reporter of the N.Y. Herald and Our Special Artist
  • John Brown Going to His Hanging
  • John Brown Riding on His Coffin to the Place of Execution
  • Mrs. Brown Escorted from Harper’s Ferry to the Jail at Charlestown [sic] to Have an Interview with Her Husband, the Day Before He Was Hanged
  • Arrival of Mrs. Brown at Charlestown [sic], Accompanied by Captain Moore and an Escort. December 1, 1859
  • Sojourner Truth
  • Account register, Carlen Galleries, Inc.
  • Teachers College Powerhouse, Winter
  • Buffalo Hunt
  • Coming In
  • Portrait of Dr. Christian Brinton
  • Portrait of My Wife
  • Horace Pippin at work on "Marian Anderson Singing" (1941), with Jennie Pippin darning socks
  • Horace Pippin with his portrait of Marian Anderson
  • Program, Marian Anderson at the Academy of Music, Philadelphia, 23 May 1940
  • Portrait of Marian Anderson
  • Marian Anderson
  • Marian Anderson Singing
  • Portrait of Marian Anderson Singing
  • Albert Barnes speaking at the opening of the Third Annual Exhibition, The Pyramid Club, Philadelphia, February 1943
  • Horace Pippin
  • Sale brochure for Mrs. Jane Kendall Hamilton’s Willow Brook Farm
  • Self-Portrait II
  • The Den
  • Mrs. Jane Kendall Hamilton's den at Paoli
  • Victorian Interior I
  • Giant Daffodils
  • Bouquet of Flowers with China Asters and Tokyos (Bouquet de fleurs aux reines-marguerites et aux tokyos)
  • Roses with Red Chair
  • André Breton, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, and Leonora Carrington with Morris Hirshfield’s Nude at the Window (1941) at Peggy Guggenheim’s townhouse, 44 East 51st St., New York
  • The Greatest Temptation of Saint Anthony
  • How to Look at Modern Art in America
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~~I started my career with I Tell My Heart: The Art of Horace Pippin and have periodically revisited his work ever since, seeing it afresh as I mature. Now, after a quarter century, that relationship has culminated in a book buoyed by multiform gifts and kindnesses not too dissimilar from those...
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Description: Horace Pippin, American Modern
Horace Pippin executed Self Portrait in 1941 as his star was on the rise (fig. 1). By the end of that year, the fifty-three-year-old artist, who had taught himself to paint little more than...
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In 2001, almost exactly thirty years after Roger Cardinal coined the term “outsider art,” he turned his attention to “memory painting,” an expression conventionally applied to landscapes and genre scenes by white “countrywomen”—think Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) Moses—who,...
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Horace Pippin described Cabin in the Cotton (ca. 1931–1937) as his second painting, which almost certainly means that he started it while The Ending of the War, Starting Home was still underway...
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~~“How I Paint,” Horace Pippin’s first and fullest description of his process, began casting a long shadow almost as soon as excerpts of it appeared in the Museum of Modern Art’s (MoMA) Masters of Popular Painting: Modern...
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~~In 1945, at the height of his career, Horace Pippin painted The Den as a gift for his Chester County patron Jane Kendall Mason Hamilton (later known as Jane Kendall Gingrich). The ambitious composition marks the final recorded instance of a gift-giving practice that he had earlier undertaken with some regularity. The...
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This book begins with modern primitives in the 1930s and closes with surrealists in the 1940s. While the former is a familiar association for Pippin, the latter might seem like a stretch, considering that the qualities often celebrated in autodidacts are light years away from the theory, collectivity, and...
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Appendix
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Abbreviations
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