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Horace Pippin

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Horace Pippin (born February 22, 1888, West Chester, Pennsylvania, U.S.ā€”died July 6, 1946, West Chester) was an American folk painter known for his depictions of African American life and of the horrors of war. Pippinā€™s childhood was spent in Goshen, New York, a town that sometimes appears in his paintings. There he drew horses at the local racetrack and, according to his own account, painted biblical scenes on frayed pieces of muslin. He was variously...

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