Horace Pippin

Philadelphia Museum of Art

A bequest includes three important works by the self-taught African American painter Horace Pippin, including  

The Getaway (1939), a stark winter scene in which a fox makes off with a bird in its mouth;  

Study for Barracks (1945), which conveys the everyday activity of African American combat soldiers in a dugout during World War II;

and The Park Bench (1946), which is often interpreted as a psychological portrait of the artist and was painted in the last year of his life.

Horace Pippin, Domino Players, 1943. Oil on composition board, 12 3/4 x 22 in. The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC. Acquired 1943

Horace Pippin, Sunday Morning Breakfast, 1943, oil on fabric. Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri, museum funds; Friends Fund; bequest of Marie Setz Hertslet, museum purchase, Eliza McMillan Trust, and gift of Mrs. Carll Tucker, by exchange, 164:2015