Creator:

Pippin, Horace, 1888-1946  Search this

Subject:

Pippin, Horace  Search this

Type:

Correspondence

Date:

ca. 1943

Place of publication, production, or execution:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Physical Description:

Letter : 2 p. : handwritten ; 28 x 22 cm.

Summary:

One letter, circa 1943, is addressed to "My Dear Friends" and begins with "my life story of art. that is my art, and no one elce [sic]...." wherein Pippin recounts a childhood memory of creating artwork for a Sunday school sale and how the "war of 1917... brought out all of the art in me" and how he paints from it today.

Citation:

Horace Pippin. Horace Pippin, West Chester, Pa. letter to unidentified recipient, ca. 1943. Horace Pippin notebooks and letters, circa 1920, 1943. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Use Note:

Current copyright status is undetermined

Location Note:

Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. 20560

Topic:

African American artists  Search this

Inspiration  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA)7468

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Horace Pippin notebooks and letters, circa 1920, 1943

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

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