Know the Artist: Horace Pippin

American: born 1888- died 1946

 Featured Works were: 
 Holy Mountain 1945     Zachariah      Interior 1944     Trial of John Brown 1942     

1888 : Horace Pippin Was Born

1888 : Impressionist Exhibit

1890 : Vincent Van Gogh died

1903 : Airplane invented -first powered flight by Wilbur and Orville Wright

1908 : Henry Ford assembly line- Model T

1914-18 : Great Migration of African Americans- During the great migration
of African Americans from the rural South to the industrial North.

1917: World War 1

1929: Great Depression

1930: Competed his first oil painting

1941: Whipping Painting

1941-45: World War II - U.S. involvement

1942: Trial Of John Brown Painting 

1942-44: Where the most successful oil painting years 

1945: Einstein’s Theory of Relativity

1945: Atomic Bomb

1946: Horace Pippin Dies

Horace Pippins [African- American, 1888- 1946]
www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/pippin_horace.html

Some of Horace Pippin's Famous Art Work
http://www.allposters.com/Galleryc.asp?aid=85097&parentaid=0&item=125066

Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
http://search.famsf.org/4d.acgi$Search?list&=1&=horace&=And&=Yes&=pippin&=&=&=Yes&=Yes&=f

Teacher’s guide for Trial of John Brown
http://www.famsf.org/fam/education/publications/guide-american/slide-15.html

National Gallery of Art - Interior
http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pimage?70965+0+0 
http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/ggafamer/ggafamer-70965.0.html

Meet Horace Pippin - counting on Art Curriculum Resources - National Gallery of Art

Harmonizing   Domino Players

Horace Pippen- The Whipping

Smithsonian Archives: Papers of African American Artists

Horace Pippen Slide Show - (images not high quality)

"I did not care what or where I went at. I ask[ed] God to help me, and he did so. And that is the way I came though that trouble and hell[ish] place. For the whole enter battle [I] felt were hell, so it wer no place for any human being to be."

Video:

"Horace Pippen: There Will Be Peace" This Horace Pippen video is excellent-- perfect length of time for a classroom (28 minutes long). Another quality video from the African
American Artists Series. This one was a bit different ---Letters are read by an actor playing the part of Horace Pippen. The letters take us through the life of Pippen -- what motivated him to paint...His experience in WWWI (and how those memories haunted him --- why he needed to paint them)- his injury and honorable discharge...and how he struggled to continue painting with his disability (he had to hold up his hand with his other hand - due to the war injury-- yet that didn't stop him from painting. Pippen was a self taught artist (folk artist -- outsider -- what ever term you want to use). After his discharge from the war, he began painting by holding and moving a panel of wood across a hot poker -- he was eventually able to hold the hot poker -- many of his works are woodburned lines--then painted. Arts & Activities review

Original  page  created by an eighth grade student May 2000 (updated by J Decker 2/10/2002)

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