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Materials:

oil on canvasboard

Measurements:

17.64 in. (44.80 cm.) (height) by 23.86 in. (60.60 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

inscribed FROM H. PIPPIN, 327 W. GAY ST/WEST CHESTER P.A. (on an original label affixed to the reverse)

Exhibited:

Birmingham, Pennsylvania, Octagonal Schoolhouse,. 250th Anniversary of the Birmingham Meeting , October 1940. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Art Alliance,. Horace Pippin Memorial Exhibition , April-May 1947, no. 26, n.p. (as . Birmingham Meeting House No. 3 ). Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Museum of Fine Art, Carnegie Institute; Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, . Three Self-Taught Pennsylvania Artists: Hicks, Kane, Pippin , October 1966-February 1967, illustrated p. 102. New York, ACA Galleries,. Four American Primitives: Edward Hicks, John Kane, Anna Mary Robertson Moses, Horace Pippin , February-March 1972, no. 52, n.p., illustrated. Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection; New York, Terry Dintenfass Gallery; Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum, . Horace Pippin , February-September 1977, no. 26, illustrated n.p

Literature:

Daily Local News , October 8, 1940, Township Clippings Files, Birmingham Township Churches, Society of Friends-Orthodox, Chester County Historical Society, West Chester, Pennsylvania, n.p. Selden Rodman,. Horace Pippin: A Negro Painter in America , New York, 1947, no. 56, p. 84 (as. Birmingham Meeting House IV, 1942). Judith E. Stein, . I Tell My Heart: The Art of Horace Pippin , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1993, pp. 84, 198, illustrated fig. 72, p. 91. (forthcoming) Anne Monahan, . Horace Pippin, American Modern , New Haven, Connecticut, 2020, illustrated n.p

Provenance:

Carlen Galleries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Curtin Winsor and Elizabeth Roosevelt Winsor, Rosemont, Pennsylvania, 1940. Carlen Galleries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Acquired by the present owner from the above, by 1966