Horace Pippin
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Horace Pippin (Born West Chester, Pennsylvania February 22, 1888 – July 6, 1946) was an American painter. His style was called naive more commonly than primitive. The subject matter of his work varies but the injustice of slavery and American segregation figure prominently. He also painted landscapes and religious subjects. He also served in the 369th infantry in World War 1. A saying of his: "I did not care what or where I went at. I asked God to help me, and he did so. And that is the way I came through that terrible and Hellish place. For the whole entire battlfield was hell, so it was no place for any human being to be."- Horace Pippin, WWI. [1]
Pippen lived in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
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- ^ "Pippin, Horace." Grolier Encyclopedia of Knowledge, volume 15, copyright 1991. Grolier Inc., ISBN 0-7172-5300-7
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