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TitleCabin in the Cotton

Creator namePippin, Horace

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1931-1937

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on cotton mounted on Masonite

Dimensions51 × 85 cm (20 × 33 1/2 in.)

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/111617?search_no=41&index=0

Accession number1990.417

SubjectsLog cabins in artPainting, American--20th centuryAfrican Americans in artCotton plantation workersAfrican American artists

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2. Labor

Anne Monahan

Horace Pippin, American Modern

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...

Author

Anne Monahan

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.71-113

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00211.003

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20342&redirecttoanchor=22101

Chapter subject tags:African American artistsAfrican American agricultural laborersHarlem RenaissanceMuseum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896. Uncle Tom's cabin

A Portfolio of Works by African American Artists: Continuing the Dialogue: A Work in Progress

Andrea D. Barnwell and Kirsten P. Buick

African Americans in Art: Selections from The Art Institute of Chicago

On the threshold of a new millennium, how should we proceed with the dialogue about art made by African Americans? It is often difficult for many late twentieth-century viewers to recognize how irrevocably informed we continue to be by ideologies of race...

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Andrea D. Barnwell and Kirsten P. Buick

PublisherArt Institute of Chicago

Related print edition pages: pp.181-219

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00008.004

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-16327&redirecttoanchor=22101

Chapter subject tags:African American artAfrican American artistsUnited States--Race relationsRace awareness in artArt genres

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