The African American painter Horace Pippin created paintings based on his experiences in World Wars I and II and from his memories of black life in the US in the 19th century. Many of Pippin's paintings are landscapes, but he also had an interest in historical subjects.
Between 1928 and his death in 1946 the self-taught black painter Horace Pippin produced 136 sketches, oil paintings, and burnt-wood panels.(1) His landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and scenes inspired by history, ...