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John Brown Reading His Bible - Horace Pippin
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Horace Pippin's 1942 painting, *John Brown Reading His Bible*, is a solemn portrait of the abolitionist John Brown, characterised by its simplified forms and muted colour palette, typical of Pippin's folk-art style.
Horace Pippin's 1942 painting, *John Brown Reading His Bible*, presents a solemn portrait of the abolitionist John Brown. Pippin, a self-taught artist, often depicted scenes from American history and his own experiences. This work is characterised by its simplified forms and muted colour palette, typical of Pippin's folk-art style. The painting shows Brown standing behind a wooden barrier, presumably at a table, with an open book before him. A single candle illuminates the scene, casting long shadows across the log cabin interior. The composition is deliberately stark, with the figure of Brown dominating the frame. The background is rendered in shades of grey and white, creating a sense of quiet contemplation. Pippin's use of colour is restrained, focusing attention on the subject's face and the open book. The painting's directness and simplicity convey a sense of reverence for Brown's moral conviction. Pippin's work provides a powerful commentary on race, history, and social justice in America.
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John Brown Reading His Bible - Horace Pippin
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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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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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