29 Horace Pippin

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TitleSelf-Portrait

Creator namePippin, Horace

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1941

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas board

Dimensions14 × 11 in. (35.56 × 27.94 cm)

LocationAlbright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo

https://www.albrightknox.org/artworks/rca19422-self-portrait

Accession numberRCA1942:2

SubjectsSelf-portraits, AmericanArtists--PortraitsArtists' toolsAfrican American artistsPainting, American--20th century

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Introduction

Anne Monahan

Horace Pippin, American Modern

Horace Pippin executed Self Portrait in 1941 as his star was on the rise (fig. 1). By the end of that year, the fifty-three-year-old artist, who had taught himself to paint little more than...

Author

Anne Monahan

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.1-19

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00211.001

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Chapter subject tags:African American artistsRacism in artDowntown Gallery (New York, N.Y.)Folk art

1. After Slavery

Jacqueline Francis

Description: The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V: The Twentieth Century, Part 2: The...

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V: The Twentieth Century, Part 2: The Rise of Black Artists

In February 1940 the exhibition Bill Traylor—People’s Artist opened at the New South School and Gallery, a Montgomery, Alabama, cultural center dedicated to showing modern art and broadening and fostering southern culture. Miriam Rogers Fowler, “New South...

Author

Jacqueline Francis

PublisherHarvard University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.11-52

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00146.005

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-17730&redirecttoanchor=29488

Chapter subject tags:African American artists--United States--20th centuryAfrican diasporaTraylor, Bill, 1856-1949Racism in artLynching in artStereotypes (Social psychology) in artTanner, Henry Ossawa, 1859-1937Sculpture, American--20th centuryDouglas, AaronHarlem RenaissanceMural painting and decoration, American--19th centuryPippin, Horace, 1888-1946Thrash, Dox, 1892-1965Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000

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