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Horace Pippin

Quaker Mother and Child, ca. 1935-1940

Description

Maker

Title

Quaker Mother and Child

Year

ca. 1935-1940

Medium

Oil on canvas

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Supports

Dimensions

41 x 51.4 cm (16 1/8 x 20 1/4 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed LR: H. Pippin

Type

Credit

Jesse Metcalf Fund

Object Number

44.094

Projects & Publications

Publications

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

United Histories

March 23 - August 12, 2018

These works offer contrasting perspectives on motherhood and domesticity. Pippin, a self-taught African American painter, emphasizes the spirit of simplicity in colonial-era Quaker homes. Quietly depicting a mother and her infant child, he evokes associations with what could be seen as a less complicated historical moment in American domestic life. Smith presents a dress she made for herself during a pregnancy. Maternity Dress challenges social conventions and clothing designs that conceal, rather than celebrate, the transformed physical condition of pregnant women.

[see also: 2007.8]

Making It In America

October 11, 2013 - February 9, 2014

A self-taught artist, the grandson of slaves, and the son of a laborer and a domestic worker, Horace Pippin came to painting in his mid 30s. His right arm was crippled during service in France in 1917, but he wrote that the wartime experience “brought out all the art in me.” His subjects, ranging from childhood memories to religious narratives, were first composed in his imagination: “I do over the picture several times in my mind,” he said, “and when I am ready to paint it I have all the details I need.” As a result, Pippin’s work is characterized by clarity, selection, and order.

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