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Birmingham Meeting House IV - Horace Pippin
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Horace Pippin's 'Birmingham Meeting House IV' captures a night scene with a silhouetted building seen through bare trees. The glowing windows create a striking contrast against the dark facade.
Horace Pippin (1888-1946) was an American self-taught artist known for his naive style and depictions of African-American life, historical events, and religious themes. Pippin began painting seriously after being wounded in World War I, which limited the use of his right arm. He developed a unique technique, often using his left hand to guide his right. His work gained recognition in the 1930s and 1940s, and he became one of the most celebrated African-American artists of his time. 'Birmingham Meeting House IV' presents a night scene with a silhouetted building viewed through a screen of bare trees. The structure, presumably the meeting house, is seen in stark contrast against the night sky. The windows glow with an inner light, creating a series of bright rectangles that punctuate the dark facade. The trees, rendered as dark, skeletal forms, frame the building and add a sense of depth to the composition. The overall effect is one of quiet contemplation, with a focus on the interplay of light and shadow.
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Birmingham Meeting House IV - Horace Pippin
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Fine Art Poster / Small Square (30x30 cm) / -
Artist Biography
Horace Pippin
Pippin enlisted in the army under a false name. On 15 July 1917, he joined the all-Black 15th New York National Guard Regiment (later the 369th Infantry, known as the Harlem Hellfighters) as "Harris Pippin". He served in France, kept a war journal illustrated with drawings, and was shot by a German sniper. The bullet partially paralysed his right arm. He was twenty-nine.
He was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1888; his grandparents had been enslaved. As a boy in Goshen, New York, he won a box of crayons in a competition sponsored by an art supplier. That was the extent of his formal art education. After the war, he settled back in West Chester and began painting in the early 1930s, using his left hand to prop up his injured right arm. He worked on canvas, fabric, and cigar boxes, and burned images into wood panels with a hot poker. He also tried bee sting therapy for his wound, trading fish pepper seeds to his Quaker friend H. Ralph Weaver in exchange for bees.
Pippin produced roughly 140 works over twenty years. His subjects ranged from war memories to biblical scenes, landscapes and domestic interiors. The style was self-taught and non-academic: flat, bold colour within firm outlines, with a structural clarity that recalls American folk art and Edward Hicks's peaceable kingdom paintings. In 1943, the collector Albert C. Barnes and curator Christian Brinton began championing his work, bringing it to major exhibitions in Philadelphia and New York.
He became the first Black artist to be the subject of a published monograph, Selden Rodman's Horace Pippin, A Negro Painter in America (1947). He died in West Chester in 1946, at fifty-eight. The New York Times called him the most important Black painter in American history.
He was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1888; his grandparents had been enslaved. As a boy in Goshen, New York, he won a box of crayons in a competition sponsored by an art supplier. That was the extent of his formal art education. After the war, he settled back in West Chester and began painting in the early 1930s, using his left hand to prop up his injured right arm. He worked on canvas, fabric, and cigar boxes, and burned images into wood panels with a hot poker. He also tried bee sting therapy for his wound, trading fish pepper seeds to his Quaker friend H. Ralph Weaver in exchange for bees.
Pippin produced roughly 140 works over twenty years. His subjects ranged from war memories to biblical scenes, landscapes and domestic interiors. The style was self-taught and non-academic: flat, bold colour within firm outlines, with a structural clarity that recalls American folk art and Edward Hicks's peaceable kingdom paintings. In 1943, the collector Albert C. Barnes and curator Christian Brinton began championing his work, bringing it to major exhibitions in Philadelphia and New York.
He became the first Black artist to be the subject of a published monograph, Selden Rodman's Horace Pippin, A Negro Painter in America (1947). He died in West Chester in 1946, at fifty-eight. The New York Times called him the most important Black painter in American history.
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Artist Biography
Horace Pippin
Pippin enlisted in the army under a false name. On 15 July 1917, he joined the all-Black 15th New York National Guard Regiment (later the 369th Infantry, known as the Harlem Hellfighters) as "Harris Pippin". He served in France, kept a war journal illustrated with drawings, and was shot by a German sniper. The bullet partially paralysed his right arm. He was twenty-nine.
He was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1888; his grandparents had been enslaved. As a boy in Goshen, New York, he won a box of crayons in a competition sponsored by an art supplier. That was the extent of his formal art education. After the war, he settled back in West Chester and began painting in the early 1930s, using his left hand to prop up his injured right arm. He worked on canvas, fabric, and cigar boxes, and burned images into wood panels with a hot poker. He also tried bee sting therapy for his wound, trading fish pepper seeds to his Quaker friend H. Ralph Weaver in exchange for bees.
Pippin produced roughly 140 works over twenty years. His subjects ranged from war memories to biblical scenes, landscapes and domestic interiors. The style was self-taught and non-academic: flat, bold colour within firm outlines, with a structural clarity that recalls American folk art and Edward Hicks's peaceable kingdom paintings. In 1943, the collector Albert C. Barnes and curator Christian Brinton began championing his work, bringing it to major exhibitions in Philadelphia and New York.
He became the first Black artist to be the subject of a published monograph, Selden Rodman's Horace Pippin, A Negro Painter in America (1947). He died in West Chester in 1946, at fifty-eight. The New York Times called him the most important Black painter in American history.
He was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1888; his grandparents had been enslaved. As a boy in Goshen, New York, he won a box of crayons in a competition sponsored by an art supplier. That was the extent of his formal art education. After the war, he settled back in West Chester and began painting in the early 1930s, using his left hand to prop up his injured right arm. He worked on canvas, fabric, and cigar boxes, and burned images into wood panels with a hot poker. He also tried bee sting therapy for his wound, trading fish pepper seeds to his Quaker friend H. Ralph Weaver in exchange for bees.
Pippin produced roughly 140 works over twenty years. His subjects ranged from war memories to biblical scenes, landscapes and domestic interiors. The style was self-taught and non-academic: flat, bold colour within firm outlines, with a structural clarity that recalls American folk art and Edward Hicks's peaceable kingdom paintings. In 1943, the collector Albert C. Barnes and curator Christian Brinton began championing his work, bringing it to major exhibitions in Philadelphia and New York.
He became the first Black artist to be the subject of a published monograph, Selden Rodman's Horace Pippin, A Negro Painter in America (1947). He died in West Chester in 1946, at fifty-eight. The New York Times called him the most important Black painter in American history.
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