Today, at the Chestnut Grove Annex Cemetery on the edge of West Chester, a simple stone marker proudly proclaims: “HORACE PIPPIN 1888-1946 PFC CO. K-369TH INF. WORLD WAR.” Pippin was also one of the ...

As a boy, Horace Pippin hung around the race track at Goshen, N. Y., sketching the trotters on odd scraps of paper. Later, as a husky moving-man, he used to ask for the job of crating people’s ...

WEST CHESTER — Internationally acclaimed borough artist Horace Pippin was recognized last week during celebrations of his 135th birthday. A plaque was rededicated at his 327 W. Gay St. home ...

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is presenting Boom: Art and Design in the 1940s, an exhibition of over 250 works of sculpture, painting, fashion, photography, furniture and more, drawn entirely from ...

When Ronald Roth began planning an exhibition to showcase the works of an African-American artist for Black History Month, Horace Pippin (1888-1946) seemed a logical choice to the director and CEO ...

“A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin,” written by Jen Bryant of Chester County, PA, has received national honors and distinctions from both the National Council for Teachers of ...

An admirer of Paul Cezanne, Black artist Horace Pippin returned from World War I to racism at home and managed to paint despite a war injury. Works like his haunting 1933 painting “The Buffalo ...

Then he learned from a New York gallery owner that she was finally ready to sell Horace Pippin’s 1936 work “Portrait of My Wife,” an oil painting that the doctor and his wife, Harriet ...

1888 — Painter Horace Pippin was born. He was a self-taught artist who painted a range of themes, including scenes inspired by his service in World War I, landscapes, portraits, and biblical ...