LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

30.51 in. (77.50 cm.) (height) by 35.98 in. (91.40 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed H. Pippin. and dated June 6./1944. (lower right)

Exhibited:

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, p. 108, illustrated. New York, ACA Galleries, . Four American Primitives: Hicks, Kane, Moses, Pippin , February-March 1972, no. 45, illustrated n.p. Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection; New York, Terry Dintenfass Gallery; Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum, . Horace Pippin , February-September 1977, no. 37, illustrated n.p. Vienna, Austria, Art in Embassies Program, . The Art Collection of the American Embassy, Vienna , 1983-1984, illustrated n.p. New York, Andrew Crispo Gallery, Inc., . Twentieth Century Americans , May-August 1982. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Chicago, Illinois, Art Institute of Chicago; Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati Art Museum; Baltimore, Maryland, The Baltimore Museum of Art; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, . I Tell My Heart: The Art of Horace Pippin , January 1994-April 1995, pp. 16, 82, 131, 132, 201, illustrated fig. 127, p. 131

Literature:

Grace Pagano,. Contemporary American Painting: T . he Encyclopædia Britannica Collection , New York, 1945, no. 87, illustrated n.p. Selden Rodman, . Horace Pippin: A Negro Painter in America , New York, 1947, no. 76, p. 20, illustrated pl. XXXI. Selden Rodman and Carole Cleaver, . Horace Pippin: The Artist as a Black American , Garden City, New York, 1972, p. 14. David C. Driskell, . The Other Side of Color , San Francisco, California, 2001, pp. 73, 82, illustrated pl. 41, p. 76

Provenance:

The Downtown Gallery, New York. The Encyclopædia Britannica Collection, Chicago, Illinois, by 1945. The Downtown Gallery, New York. Mrs. Galen Van Meter, Southport, Connecticut, by 1966. [With]Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York. Andrew Crispo Gallery, Inc., New York (sold: Sotheby's, New York, December 3, 1987, lot 339). Private collection (acquired at the above sale). Acquired by the present owner from the above