Horace Pippin, American Modern

Horace Pippin, American Modern PDF Author: Anne Monahan
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300243308
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 265

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Book Description
This nuanced reassessment transforms our understanding of Horace Pippin, casting the artist and his celebrated paintings as more complex than has previously been recognized

Horace Pippin, American Modern

Horace Pippin, American Modern PDF Author: Anne Monahan
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300243308
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 265

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Book Description
This nuanced reassessment transforms our understanding of Horace Pippin, casting the artist and his celebrated paintings as more complex than has previously been recognized

Primitive

Primitive PDF Author: Janice N. Harrington
Publisher: BOA Editions
ISBN: 9781942683209
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Biographical poems on artist Horace H. Pippin, who left an invaluable record of African American life during World War I.

Horace Pippin

Horace Pippin PDF Author: Audrey M. Lewis
Publisher: Scala Arts Publishers Incorporated
ISBN: 9781857599411
Category : African American art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The first examination of the evocative paintings of the self-taught African American artist Horace Pippin in over twenty years. Horace Pippin's response to the question of what made him a great painter: "I paint it the way I see it." This exciting new publication will look closely at Pippin (1888-1946) as an artist who was embraced by the art world, yet remained independent, creating and upholding a unique aesthetic sensibility while also candidly, if subtly, expressing his opinions on a wide range of social issues. A self-taught master of form, colour and composition, Pippin vividly depicted a range of subject matter, from scenes of war, history and religion, to sporting scenes, floral still lifes and intimate family moments. Accompanying a major exhibition at the Brandywine River Museum of Art, the book will be the first examination of the artist's work in twenty years and is an opportunity to re-examine Pippin with fresh eyes. His development as a self-aware, self-taught artist will be explored in-depth, looking at the rich pictorial language and multi-layered narratives of his paintings. Fully illustrated with over 60 works from around the United States, the book will introduce a new generation of scholarly voices, speaking to such issues as influence, racial and religious politics, and narrative truths in history. AUTHOR:- Audrey Lewis, Editor, is the Associate Curator at the Brandywine River Museum of Art. Judith F. Dolkart is Director of the Addison Gallery Museum of Art, and the former Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Barnes Foundation. Jacqueline Francis is Associate Professor of Visual and Critical Studies at California College of the Arts. Anne Monahan is an independent scholar who focuses on contemporary African American art. Edward Puchner is Curator of Exhibitions, McKissick Museum, South Carolina. Kerry James Marshall has been described by the National Gallery of Art as one of the most celebrated painters currently working in the United States. 120 colour

A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin

A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin PDF Author: Jen Bryant
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375867120
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41

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A Robert F. Sibert Honor Book Winner of the Schneider Family Book Award An ALA-ALSC Notable Children's Book Winner of the NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children As a child in the late 1800s, Horace Pippin loved to draw: He loved the feel of the charcoal as it slid across the floor. He loved looking at something in the room and making it come alive again in front of him. He drew pictures for his sisters, his classmates, his co-workers. Even during W.W.I, Horace filled his notebooks with drawings from the trenches . . . until he was shot. Upon his return home, Horace couldn't lift his right arm, and couldn't make any art. Slowly, with lots of practice, he regained use of his arm, until once again, he was able to paint--and paint, and paint! Soon, people—including the famous painter N. C. Wyeth—started noticing Horace's art, and before long, his paintings were displayed in galleries and museums across the country. Jen Bryant and Melissa Sweet team up once again to share this inspiring story of a self-taught painter from humble beginnings who despite many obstacles, was ultimately able to do what he loved, and be recognized for who he was: an artist.

African American Masters

African American Masters PDF Author: Gwen Everett
Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Book Description
Accompanying the much-publicized exhibition of the same name that will be traveling throughout the nation over the next two years, this selection presents works from the renowned collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the nation's greatest repository of African American art. From Faith Ringgold's fabric interpretation of the Harlem Renaissance to Gordon Parks's celebrated 1996 photograph of Muhammad Ali, the paintings, sculptures, and photographs reproduced here--full-page and in color--reflect the rich and varied experience of African American artists in the 20th century. Coverage ranges from pioneer works created early in the century, when African Americans were actively discouraged from becoming artists, to important pieces from the Harlem Renaissance, to modern and contemporary selections by today's well-established artists. A few highlights include Roy DeCarava's 1949 photograph Graduation, Romare Bearden's 1974 collage Empress of the Blues, and works by the noted African American sculptor Augusta Savage and assemblage artist Betye Saar. The text--informative commentaries on the individual pictures and creators--completes this wonderful introduction to an important chapter in the history of American art.

I Tell My Heart

I Tell My Heart PDF Author: Judith E. Stein
Publisher: Universe Publishing(NY)
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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"One of the foremost African-American artists of the twentieth century, Horace Pippin came to prominence in the late 1930s between the heyday of the American Scene painters and the ascendancy of Abstract Expressionism. An unschooled painter who was a disabled World War I veteran, Pippin is represented in public and private collections across America." "I Tell My Heart features over 110 Pippin paintings including many never before reproduced nor shown in public since the artist's lifetime, as well as many black and white archival photographs of Pippin and his contemporaries." "Pippin provides a first-hand view of several little-celebrated aspects of African-American culture: documentation of the bravery of black soldiers in combat; the dignity, beauty, and hardships of everyday life among rural people circa 1900; and the strength and warmth of intergenerational familial relationships." "The book is divided into five thematic areas - war, genre, academic, biblical, and historical subjects - giving readers the opportunity to discover the breadth of Pippin's visual imagination. A chronology of his life, an exhibition history, a list of all known works, along with a selected bibliography provide the most complete and thorough information about Horace Pippin that has ever been collected." "A diverse group of distinguished scholars have freshly considered all aspects of Pippin's life and work. Judith E. Stein constructs a fuller picture of Pippin as an artist and as a man by using his letters and by culling his quoted remarks from period publications. Cornel West explores Pippin's significance vis a vis American and African-American cultural history. Authors Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, Richard J. Powell, and Judith Wilson shed new light on Pippin's iconography - from his images of war to his biblical inspirations. And conservators Mark F. Bockrath and Barbara A. Buckley discuss Pippin's process and technique, a subject never addressed before." "I Tell My Heart restores Horace Pippin to his full status as an exemplar of the American spirit. As an early-recognized and nationally celebrated African-American artist, Pippin is an example and an inspiration to all."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Horace Pippin

Horace Pippin PDF Author: Mike Venezia
Publisher: Childrens Press
ISBN: 9780531147580
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Book Description
Presents the life and work of the African American folk artist who had to overcome a severe injury to his right arm in order to paint.

Horace Pippin

Horace Pippin PDF Author: Selden Rodman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781961301160
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Originally published in 1947, Horace Pippin: A Negro Painter In America was one of the first monographs ever of a Black American artist; a survey of the paintings of self-taught painter Horace Pippin (1888-1946). This reprint contains all of the original text and maintains the original formatting. It is a well-illustrated book containing a complete chronological catalog of Pippin's paintings, a chronology of his life, and the artist's autobiographical sketch, "My Life's Story," drawn from two of his manuscripts. This book contains 6 sketches and 50 full-color plates of Pippin's work. About Horace Pippin Horace Pippin was born February 22, 1888, just twenty-three years after the Civil War and the end of slavery. His grandparents were slaves, and his parents were domestic workers. He was an African American folk painter known for his depictions of African American life and of the horrors of war. Horace Pippin was called a folk artist because he had no formal art training and was completely self-taught. In 1917 Horace Pippin joined the army and fought France during World War I. After spending fourteen months fighting in the trenches, Pippin was severely wounded in his right arm, and doctors concerned his right arm to be useless. Pippin took up art in part to rehabilitate his injured arm, and began painting on stretched fabric in 1930 with "The Ending of the War: Starting Home." He later explained his creative process: "The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worthwhile picture, I paint it." He initially made burnt-wood art panels then decided to try painting with oil. He used his "good" left hand to guide his crippled right hand, which held the paintbrush, across the canvas. It took him three years to finish his first painting. He addressed a range of themes in his works, including landscapes, still lifes, biblical subjects and political statements. He used bright colors, flat shapes, and straight lines. He did not use shading or complicated perspective. The injustice of slavery and American segregation figure prominently in many of his works.

Horace Pippin; the Artist as a Black American

Horace Pippin; the Artist as a Black American PDF Author: Selden Rodman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American artists
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Book Description
A biography of the black artist who did not complete his first painting until the age of forty-nine. Includes reproductions of his works.

Starting Home

Starting Home PDF Author: Mary E. Lyons
Publisher: Atheneum
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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Book Description
Discusses the life and work of the African-American folk artist Horace Pippin.