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Horace Pippin

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c. 1940
Oil on burnt-wood panel
30.5 × 38.4 cm (12 × 15.1 in)

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Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia · verified July 2026

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FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG

An African American artist from West Chester, Pennsylvania, Horace Pippin took a class here at the Barnes in 1940. That same year he traveled throughout the country painting landscapes and scenes from the lives of African Americans. This work, showing a humble family in an interior, may have been made on that trip. Pippin often painted on wood, carving his composition with a hot poker before adding color.

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