Horace Pippin (February 22, 1888 July 6, 1946) was a self-taught African- American painter who worked in a naive style. The injustice of slavery and ...
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Horace Pippin: The Phillips Collection...With an Essay by R. Bearden
diasporic communities. Among the seeds she offers are the large, curvy cushaw squash that her North Carolina ancestors grew; a Caribbean tomato that may have been carried to the US by migrants fleeing the Haitian Revolution; and a fish pepper collected by the early 20th-century folk artist Horace Pippin.
A section of the show is dedicated to his zealous pursuit of African art, which drew African-American artists to the foundation. Handwritten letters from Horace Pippin and many others are shown in glass vitrines in the room, which has one small window at the floor overlooking the reflecting pool.