Self-Portrait

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...

In February 1940 the exhibition Bill Traylor—People’s Artist opened at the New South School and Gallery, a Montgomery, Alabama, cultural center dedicated to showing modern art and broadening and fostering southern culture. Miriam Rogers Fowler, “New South...