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Horace Pippin, 1946
Thomas Bostelle
Born in 1888, Horace Pippin, the son of a domestic servant, showed an early talent for drawing but had little hope of an artistic career. Wounded in World War I, Pippin sought to rehabilitate himself, both physically and psychologically, through art. Although his early paintings depicted his wartime experiences, he soon began his lifelong attempt to document the entirety of African American history. In the 1930s, with regionalism and folk art in cultural vogue, the self-taught Pippin soon attracted critical attention and acclaim as a naive or "primitive" talent. |