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11/18/2022

11/18/2022

11/18/2022

If you have not yet had the chance to watch Partisan Pictures' documentary "Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes," there is still time to tune in.

PBS has made the film free to view through November 21st in the US, and it will be available outside the US in the coming months.

More information may be found here: https://www.pbs.org/show/ron-carter-finding-right-notes/ .

11/12/2022

This Veterans Day we remember and honor every veteran's service. In these documentaries and programs, hear from generations of U.S. military veterans.

11/12/2022

11/12/2022

"The war brought out all the art in me." —Horace Pippin

On , we take a closer look at Horace Pippin’s "Cabin in the Cotton." Pippin served in World War I with the segregated 369th Infantry Regiment, famously known as the Harlem Hellfighters.

He began making art as a means of therapy, hoping to regain the mobility of his right arm, which had been injured in battle.

"Cabin in the Cotton" brought him to the attention of the art world and made him one of the most acclaimed self-taught American artists in the mid-20th century. The painting exemplifies Pippin’s vivid, saturated palette and feeling for intense pattern.

On view in the window of a shoe-repair shop in early 1937, it caught the attention of artist and illustrator N.C. Wyeth, who encouraged Pippin to exhibit his work at a local annual exhibition.

See Horace Pippin's "Cabin in the Cotton" on view in Gallery 263.

11/12/2022

After returning home from World War I, 37-year-old veteran Horace Pippin began making art for the first time. ⁣⁣⁣
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With no use of his right arm—injured in combat while serving with the famed Harlem Hellfighters—Pippin wrote and illustrated memoirs of his wartime experience. From there, he began trying new techniques, burning designs into wood panels and making oil paintings.⁣⁣⁣
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By the 1940s, he was one of the most successful Black artists in the United States, selling works, winning prizes, and mounting solo shows in Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco, and Chicago—a reminder to us all that no matter what's happened, it's never too late to start anew.

🎨 Horace Pippin (American, 1888–1946). Self-Portrait II, 1944. Oil on canvas, adhered to cardboard.

11/12/2019

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Amedeo Modigliani: A collection of 281 paintings (HD) *Repost Description: "Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (12 July 1884 – 24 January 1920) was an Italian Jewish...

05/11/2019

02/13/2019

In her Glenville apartment building, Julie Ezelle-Patton cultivates a community of artists and preserves her mother's legacy as a painter. But new development threatens it all.