Dogfight Over the Trenches
Date
(c. 1939)
Artist
Horace Pippin, American, b. West Chester, Pennsylvania, 1888–1946
Provenance
Robert Carlen Galleries, Philadelphia [see undated Price List, Robert Carlen Papers, Archives of American Art]
David Ellinger, Trappe, Pennsylvania, until November 1947 [see unpublished "Chronological and Complete Catalogue" of Pippin's Work, Robert Carlen Papers, Archives of American Art, Part I, no. 14 and letter from Nancy Little, M. Knoedler & Co., September 15, 1976]*
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, November 1947 to 27 February 1957
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 27 February 1957-17 May 1966
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
*Photocopies of documents from Robert Carlen Papers in Collection Archive (JZ, 2/2/2001)
Exhibition History
CARLEN GALLERIES, Philadelphia. "Horace Pippin Exhibition," 29 January-18 February 1940, no. 11.
BIGNOU GALLERY, New York. "Paintings by Horace Pippin," 30 September-12 October 1940, no. 12.
PHILADELPHIA ART ALLIANCE. "Horace Pippin Memorial Exhibition," 8 April-4 May 1947, no. 8 [lent by David Y. Ellinger, Trappe, PA].
[M. KNOEDLER & CO., New York. "Memorial Exhibition: Horace Pippin, 1888-1946," 29 September-11 October 1947]. (not verified)
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York [organizer]. "Seventeen Naive Painters." Tour: CHARLES AND EMMA FRYE ART MUSEUM, Seattle, 4-27 March 1966; TENNESSEE FINE ARTS CENTER, Nashville, 10 May-5 June; UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA, 25 July-15 August; SAN FRANCISCO STATE COLLEGE, 6-27 September; BATES COLLEGE, Lewiston, Maine, 5-26 January 1967; WELLS COLLEGE, Aurora, New York, 10 February-4 March; MANATEE JUNIOR COLLEGE, Brandenton, Florida, 24 March-16 April.
HUB GALLERY, Pennsylvania State University, University Park. "Two Pennsylvania Artists: Henry O. Tanner and Horace Pippin," 13 April-10 May 1980, no. 3.
READING PUBLIC MUSEUM, Pennsylvania. "All the Art in Me: In Search of Horace Pippin," 1 February-20 April 2003.
BRANDYWINE RIVER MUSEUM OF ART, Chaddsford, Pennsylvania. "Horace Pippin: The Way I See It," 25 April-19 July 2015, no. 8, color ill. front cover, pg. 97
PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS, Philadelphia. "World War I and American Art," 4 November 2016-9 April 2017, colorpl. 86, p. 223. Tour: NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 26 May-3 September; FRIST CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS, Nashville, 6 October-21 January 2018.
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Washington, DC. “Outliers and Vanguard American Art,” 28 January 2018-13 May 2018. Tour: HIGH MUSEUM OF ART, Atlanta, 24 June 2018-30 September 2018; LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART, Los Angeles, 18 November 2018-18 March 2019.
Published References
RODMAN, SELDON. Horace Pippin, A Negro Painter in America (New York: Quadrangle, 1947), p. 82, no. 13.
LYONS, MARY E. Starting Home: The Story of Horace Pippin, Painter (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993?), ill.
STEIN, JUDITH, et al. I Tell My Heart: The Art of Horace Pippin (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, 1993), no. 34, p. 62.
MONAHAN, ANNE. Horace Pippin, American Modern (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2020), fig. 22 (color), p. 49.
AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 62, p. 83.
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School
Outsider Art
On View
Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden (Washington, DC), 2nd Floor
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Data Source
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Accession Number
66.4071
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
18 x 33 1/8 in. (45.6 x 84.2 cm)
