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Horace Pippin

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Horace Pippin (1888 - 1946) was active/lived in Pennsylvania.  Horace Pippin is known for Naive townscape, genre and still-life painting.

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 Horace Pippin was born in 1888 in West Chester, Pennsylvania.  Pippin was one of the last of this country's important folk artists.  He was the grandson of slaves.  He left school at fourteen, worked as a field hand in Goshen, New York and then enlisted in the Army. During World War I, a sniper wounded him in the right shoulder, partially paralyzing his arm.  After the war, he was able to perform only light labor; he was a junk dealer and delivered laundry that his wife took in.  He also began to paint, laboriously. He painted many genre scenes of black life: the war, the hearth, his favorite heroes, religious subjects, etc.  He painted still life, and portraits of whites as well as blacks.  He worked out of a tiny dark room in his home.

Pippin's primitivism is a miraculously childlike vision sustained and disciplined without being dulled by a long professional career as a painter.  It's the paradoxically sophisticated primitivism of an ar   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6311 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  87
Magazine References:  10

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10 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Horace Pippin
Magazine Article Date Author Color
ARTnews Strikingly Diverse October 2003 Newhall, Edith Yes
ARTnews The Rise of African American Art September 2003 Kinsella, Eileen Yes
Art & Antiques The Top 100 Collectors in America March 2003 Cochran, B.L. and R.D Yes
American Art Review Evolution of African-American Art August 2000 Hampton, R Kumasi Yes
American Art Review Selections/Wichita Art Museum April 1998 Ross, Novelene Yes
American Art Review Still Life, Object in Ameican Art October 1997 Sims, Lowery/Sabine Rewald Yes
American Art Review Reginald Marsh: US Custom House October 1995 Leavitt, Lisa Yes
Art & Auction Up from Obscurity March 1995 Burns, Khephra Yes
American Art Review A Good Likeness/Naive Portraiture December 1994 Prince, Dan Yes
ARTnews Horace Pippin November 1994 AN editors No
87 Book References for Horace Pippin
Year Author Title Pages Color
2006 Fahlman, Betsy (Essay) Artists of the Commonwealth: Realism and Its Response in Pennsylvania Painting, 1900-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 71 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2001 Driskell, David The Other Side of Color: African-American Art in the Collection of Camille O. and William H. Cosby Jr. 240 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Passantino, Erika D (editor) The Eye of Duncan Phillips A Collection in the Making 819 Yes
1996 Barbara and Peter Toohil Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know… 363 Yes
1996 Demetrion, James T (Introduction) Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 195 Works of Art 166 Yes
1996 Sims, Lowery/Sabine Rewald Still Life The Object in American Art, 1915-1995
(Exhibition catalog)		 175 Yes
1996 Wood, James N/T Edelstein The Art Institute of Chicago Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture 160 Yes
1994 Craven, Wayne American Art History and Culture 687 Yes
1994 Simpson, Marc The Rockefeller Collection American Art (at San Francisco Museums Fine Art)
(Exhibition catalog)		 315 Yes
1994 Sweetkind, Irene/W H Gerdts Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art 372 Yes
1993 Bearden, Romare/Harry Henderson A History-African-American Artists From 1792 to the Present 542 Yes
1993 Henkes, Robert Themes in American Painting Common Styles and Genres/A Reference 260 Yes
1993 Maresca, Frank, Roger Ricco American Self-Taught: Paintings and Drawings by Outsider Artists 298 Yes
1993 Stein, Judith I Tell My Heart The Art of Horace Pippen
(Exhibition catalog)		 210 Yes
1992 Strazdes, Diana American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art 511 Yes
1991 Rosenblum, Robert (intro) The Landscape in Twentieth Century American Art 174 Yes
1991 Wilson, John Masterpieces of American Painting 34 Yes
1990 Eldredge, Charles C American Originals Selections from Reynolda House Museum 135 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1990 Goddard, Donald; Robert Rosenblum (Intro) American Painting 319 Yes
1990 Rosenak, Chuck and Jan Museum of American Folk Art Encyclopedia of 20th Century Folk Art and Artists 416 Yes
1989 Fresella-Lee, Nancy The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art 222 Yes
1989 Simpson, Marc (Mills, Saville) The American Canvas/Paintings from Collection Fine Art Museum, San Fran 254 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Wooden, Howard E American Art of Great Depression Two Sides of the Coin
(Exhibition catalog)		 151 No
1984 Adams, Henry 25th Anniversary Exhibition Selected American Paintings
(Exhibition catalog)		 120 No
1984 Sims, Lowery Stokes The Figure in 20th Century American Art Metropolitan Museum of Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 167 Yes
1983 Faison, S Lane The New England Eye Master American Paintings/New England Collections
(Exhibition catalog)		 1983 Yes
1983 Gregg, Richard N The Artist's Studio In American Painting 1840-1983
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 No
1983 Johnson, Jay; William Ketchum American Folk Art of the Twentieth Century 342 Yes
1982 Terra Museum of American Art Solitude Inner Visions in American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 41 Yes
1982 Von Blum, Paul Critical Vision/A Historyof Social and Political Art in the U S 165 No
1981 Nassau County Museum Animals in American Art 1880's-1980's
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1981 Osborne, Harold The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art 656 Yes
1980 Anderson, Dennis R American Flower Painting 84 Yes
1980 Lipman, Jean and Tom Armstrong American Folk Painters of Three Centuries 233 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Bishop, Robert Folk Painters of America 255 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1978 Lewis, Samella Art: African American 246 Yes
1977 Bearden, Romare Horace Pippin
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 No
1976 Ballinger, James K American Painting 1900 to 1932 From the Whitney Museum of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 No
1976 Boyle, Richard (Prefac); Frank Goodyear, Jr.; Louise Lippincott, et all In This Academy: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-1976
(Exhibition catalog)		 322 Yes
1976 Driskell, David C Two Centuries of Black American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 221 Yes
1976 Marcus, George H. (Editor) Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Art Philadelphia Museum of Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 166 Yes
1976 Rodman, Selden &Carole Cleaver Horace Pippin The Artist as a Black American 91 Yes
1976 Taylor, Joshua C America as Art 320 Yes
1975 Ebert, John and Katherine American Folk Painters 225 Yes
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1974 Davidson, Abraham A The Story of American Painting 168 Yes
1974 Van Devanter, Ann, et al American Self Portraits 1670-1973
(Exhibition catalog)		 245 Yes
1973 Bennett, Ian A History of American Painting 240 Yes
1973 Carnegie Institute Catalogue of Painting Collection Museum of Art 196 Yes
1973 Cederholm, Theresa Dickason Afro-American Artists: A Bio-Bibliographical Directory 348 No
1973 Davidson, Marshall The Artist's America American Heritage History of 416 Yes
1973 Fine, Elsa Honig The Afro-American Artist A Search for Identity 310 Yes
1972 Bearden, Romare/H Henderson Six Black Masters of American Art 120 Yes
1972 Dickson, Harold E Masterworks by Pennsylvania Painters in Pennsylvania Collections
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1972 Mondale, Joan Adams Politics in Art 72 Yes
1972 Price, Vincent The Vincent Price Treasury of American Art 320 Yes
1972 Tomko, George Catalogue of The Roland P Murdock Collection Wichita Art Museum 237 Yes
1971 Goodrich, Lloyd/Mary Black What Is American in American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 Yes
1970 Alston, Charles Henry; Romare Bearden; Allan Rohan Crite, et all Social Studies: The Art of Black America, Part One 0 Yes
1970 Myers, Bernard S (editor) Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc) 511 Yes
1968 Robbins, Daniel/David W Scott An American Collection The Neuberger Collection 463 Yes
1966 Black, Mary/Jean Lipman American Folk Painting 244 Yes
1966 Larkin, Oliver W Art and Life in America Revised and Enlarged Edition 559 Yes
1965 Geldzahler, Henry American Painting in the Twentieth Century 236 No
1960 Dover, Cedric American Negro Art 186 Yes
1957 Eliot, Alexander Three Hundred Years of American Painting 318 Yes
1955 Myers, Bernard Encyclopedia of Painting 511 Yes
1951 Bazin, Germain/A Gloeckner History of Modern Painting 391 Yes
1949 Ford, Alice Pictorial Folk Art New England to California 172 Yes
1949 Wight, Frederick Milestones of American Painting in Our Century 135 Yes
1947 Lee, Doris/Arnold Blanch It's Fun to Paint Painting for Enjoyment 127 No
1947 Rodman, Selden Horace Pippin 88 Yes
1946 Pagano, Grace; Donald Bear (Intro) Contemporary American Painting 260 Yes
1945 Crane, Aimee Portrait of America 204 Yes
1943 Porter, James A Modern Negro Art 272 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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