#horacepippin

[horace-pippin]

Domino Players, 1943, Horace Pippin

[the-barnes-art-collection]

Supper Time by Horace Pippin, The Barnes Foundation

Barnes Foundation (Philadelphia), Collection Gallery, Room 12, East Wall\n

Pippin, who received no formal art training, developed a technique of "carving" into his panels with a hot poker. Here, burnt-wood lines (incised over pencil) construct the chair, windowpanes, door panels, and contours of the figures.

Martha Lucy, The Barnes Foundation: Masterworks

Medium: Oil on burnt-wood panel

https://collection.barnesfoundation.org/objects/5154/

[aic-american]

Cabin in the Cotton, Horace Pippin, 1931, Art Institute of Chicago: American Art

The self-taught artist Horace Pippin began painting as a means of therapy, hoping to regain the mobility of his right arm, which had been injured in World War I. He became one of the most celebrated African American artists of the mid-twentieth century, as critics acclaimed the power and authenticity of his “primitive” style. Cabin in the Cotton, the painting that brought him to the attention of the art world, displays Pippin’s vivid, saturated palette and feeling for intense pattern. Living in Pennsylvania, Pippin may have seen cotton fields during visits to relatives in the South, but it is more likely that he drew on popular culture for inspiration. The way of life in the rural South enjoyed a great vogue in the 1930s, with the premiere of George Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess in 1935 and the publication of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind in 1936. In particular, the painting’s composition recalls the opening and closing sequences of the 1932 film Cabin in the Cotton, starring Bette Davis. In that year, both Bing Crosby and Cab Calloway made recordings of a song titled “Cabin in the Cotton.” In 1937 Christian Brinton, an influential art critic, and N. C. Wyeth, the famous illustrator, discovered Cabin in the Cotton in the window of a shoe-repair shop in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and convinced Pippin to begin exhibiting. Newspapers then widely reported that the actor Charles Laughton had purchased the painting, prompting other celebrities and art collectors, as well as museums, to acquire Pippin’s work, which assured his lasting fame. Restricted gift in memory of Frances W. Pick from her children Thomas F. Pick and Mary P. Hines Size: 51 × 85 cm (20 × 33 1/2 in.) Medium: Oil on cotton mounted on Masonite

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/111617/

[the-met-art]

Victorian Interior II by Horace Pippin, Modern and Contemporary Art

Medium: Oil on canvas

Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, 1958 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/489011

[seedkeeping]

"Buena Mulata Pepper" and "Pippin" were handwritten on a baby food jar that a young William Woys Weaver found in the bottom of the deep freezer in his grandmother’s basement, a decade after his plant-loving grandfather’s untimely death. If you’ve heard of the Fish Pepper, this story probably sounds familiar. There were many important and beautiful varieties of seeds in that lucky freezer, and many that passed from Philly- and Baltimore-based Black caterers' hands to now-famed painter Horace Pippin, including this purple-to-red cayenne type Buena Mulata. Seeds stay viable longer in the freezer; our heirlooms only survive if someone finds them in storage and places them in soil; and stories only live when they are told. I'm bringing these to Portland, OR to be included in a dish created by Sam Smith of @tuskpdx that will highlight the Fagiolina del Trasimeno at the @culinarybreedingnetwork Variety Showcase on Monday night. #buenamulata #cayenne #capsicumannuum #williamwoysweaver #roughwoodseedcollection #seedsaving #seedkeeping #seedstories #horacepippin #buenamulatapepper #culinarybreedingnetwork (at The Nines, A Luxury Collection Hotel, Portland, OR)

[archivesofamericanart]

Painter Horace Pippin (1888-1946) was born on this day in 1888. Our collection of Pippin's notebooks and letters features this remarkable notebook recounting the artist's World War I experiences in detail from the time he left the United States on November 17th, 1917 with the 15th N.Y. Infantry for France. Pippin writes of life in the trenches and dug-outs, night forays and traveling through enemy territory, details of days and nights of battles and getting shelled, gassed, and machine gun fire by the Germans, and his perceptions of fighting alongside French and Algerian soldiers.

Browse Pippin's notebooks and letters on our website 

[horace-pippin]

Interior, 1944, Horace Pippin

https://www.wikiart.org/en/horace-pippin/interior-1944

[horace-pippin]

Maple Sugar Season, 1941, Horace Pippin