Horace pippins biography

Horace Pippin was an American painter who painted a range of themes, including scenes inspired by his service in World War I, landscapes, portraits, and biblical subjects.

Horace Pippin (born February 22, , West Chester, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died July 6, , West Chester) was an American folk painter known for his depictions of African American life and of the horrors of war.

Transcribe the handwritten and illustrated autobiography by Horace Pippin, an African American World War I soldier and self-taught painter from West Chester.

Horace Pippin was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, on February 22, , to Horace and Harriet Johnson Pippin; his grandparents had been slaves. When he was two years old, his family moved to Goshen, New York. Pippin began to draw at an early age and in won a box of crayons in a contest sponsored by an art supplier.

In 1917, at the age of twenty-nine, Pippin enlisted in the U.S. Army, where he was assigned to the 369th Infantry Regiment, an all-Black group.

Horace Pippin, a soldier in World War I and later a painter, was born on February 22nd, in West Chester, Pennsylvania, but his family moved to Goshen, New York when he was three. His grandparents were slaves, and his parents worked as domestics.