Explore PA History: Horace Pippin Historical Marker
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Description: Presents details of the life of this African-American self-taught painter from West Chester, Pennsylvania. Includes marker text and images.
Horace Pippin Historical Marker Philadelphia and its Countryside/Lehigh Valley Horace Pippin was the first African-American self-taught painter whose works achieved national attention. Born in West Chester, he spent most of his childhood in New York and New Jersey. As a young man he worked as a hotel porter, mover, and iron molder. In 1917 he enlisted in the army and fought in the famous, all-black 369th Infantry regiment in France during World War I. In October, 1918, less than a month before the war ended, he was shot in the right shoulder. His service earned him the French Croix de Guerre, an honorable discharge, and a disability pension. This enabled him to live with his wife, Jennie Ora Featherstone Wade Giles, a laundress, and her son, in his hometown of West Chester for the rest of his life. There he joined the American Legion and served as commander of the town's African-American post from 1925 to 1927. Pippin's paintings of his house, the Chester County Court House, his wife, and other local scenes and people convey one African American's sense of security and affection for at least one small, predominantly white American town whose citizens encouraged his art.
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