Horace Pippin

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Horace Pippin (1888 1946) African American
Artist
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• Horace Pippin was born in 1888 just 23 years
  after the Civil War. His grandparents were
  slaves and his parents were domestic workers.
• As a child, he liked to draw and would illustrate
  his spelling words. At age 10, he won a box of
  crayons in a contest and started coloring.
• He left school at age 14 to help his family. He
  worked as a farmer, as a porter in a hotel and as
  an iron molder in a factory.
• In 1917, Pippin went to France to fight in World
  War One. His right arm was badly injured in the
  war.
• He returned home, got married and settled in
  Pennsylvania. Because of his injury, he worked
  at odd jobs and barely made a living.

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• Pippin decided to try painting with oil. He used
  his good left hand to guide his crippled right
  hand in which he held the paintbrush. It took
  him three years to make his first painting.
• Pippin went on to paint his memories of soldiers
  and the war and scenes of his childhood. He also
  painted historical subjects such as John Brown
  and Abraham Lincoln and scenes from the Bible.
• In 1938, when he was 50, a museum purchased four
  of his paintings. He took art classes for the
  first time and more and more galleries began to
  show his work. Just as he became famous, he died
  in 1946.
• Pippin was called a folk artist because he had no
  formal art training. He used bright colors, flat
  shapes and straight lines. He had not used
  shading or complicated perspectives.

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What are the people in the painting doing? What
experiences did Pippin have in order to paint
this picture? What colors did he use? Why? Does
this picture remind you of anything in your
life? Would you like to have this picture in your
home? Why or why not?
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Pippin succeeded even though he had a crippled
right hand. What does his life tell us about
overcoming his disabilities?
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