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History, Memory, and Authenticity in the Art of Horace Pippin
Wednesday, October 28, 2015, 07:00pm - 08:00pm
About The Event
The brief, meteoric career of the self-taught painter Horace Pippin (1888-1946) was inextricably bound up with his military service in World War I. A decorated and disabled veteran of the U.S. Army's storied 369th infantry, he began painting around 1930. His first images were combat scenes, presumably painted from memory, that brought him to the art world's attention within a decade. In the 1940s, at the height of his success, he revived references to his wartime experience--Doughboys, trenches, armaments--in paintings that comment on World War II. Close attention to the full range of Pippin's images of war points up the complex ways in which he negotiated his nested identities as African American soldier, veteran, and citizen. Join NYU Washington, DC in welcoming historian Anne Monahan as she explores the life and work of Horace Pippin. There will be a brief introduction by Professor Jeffrey Sammons, co-author of Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War. Pippin was a member of the unit to which the book is dedicated.
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Category: Performances & Creative Exhibition
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