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Horace Pippin's Autobiography, First World War, ca. 1921

Horace Pippin Notebooks And Letters, circa 1920, 1943

This site provides access to the papers of Horace Pippin in the Archives of American Art that were digitized in 2006. The papers have been scanned in their entirety, and total 114 images.

Collection consists of three notebooks, notebook fragments, and two letters written by African American primitive painter Horace Pippin. The three notebooks and notebook fragments contain Pippin's World War I memoirs written in the 1920s, one of which is illustrated by Pippin with six drawings of war scenes. Two letters are dated 1943 and circa 1943. One of the letters is written to "Dear Friends" and begins with "life story of art."; the other is written to dealer Robert Carlen about showing his painting Domino [Game] Players. Read more About this Collection.