Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College
Oberlin College
87 North Main Street
Oberlin, OH 44074
87 North Main Street
Oberlin, OH 44074
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Museums page for Horace Pippin ((1888 - 1946)), known for Naive townscape, genre and still-life painting. Showing 17 museum collections and exhibitions.
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1888 West Chester, Pennsylvania - 1946. Known for: Naive townscape, genre and still-life painting.
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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 lo... Read full biography
Horace Pippin - Artist Info
About Horace Pippin: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (17)
All MuseumsArt Institute of Chicago, AIC
111 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60603-6110Brandywine Museum of Art
One Hoffmans Mill Road
Po Box 141
Chadds Ford, PA 19317Buffalo AKG Art Museum
1285 Elmwood Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14222Butler Institute of American Art
524 Wick Avenue
Youngstown, OH 44502Carnegie Museum of Art
4400 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-4080Cincinnati Art Museum
953 Eden Park Drive
Cincinnati, OH 45202Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, FAMSF
50 Hagiwara
Tea Garden Drive-Golden Gate Park
San Francisco, CA 94118Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Smithsonian Institution: 7th Street & Independence Ave. Sw
Mail To: Po Box 37012/Hmsg Mrc 350
Washington, DC 20013-7012Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York City, NY 10028New Jersey State Museum
205 West State Street
Trenton, NJ 08625-0530Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library and Archives
Po Box 7646
Philadelphia, PA 19101Reynolda House-Museum of American Art
Museum of American Art
Po Box 11765
Winston-Salem, NC 27116The Baltimore Museum of Art
10 Art Museum Drive
Baltimore, MD 21218The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
118 N. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102The Phillips Collection
1600 21st Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20009-1090Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Ganesvoort Street
New York City, NY 10014