Horace Pippin
1888–1946
Exhibitions
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The Whitney’s Collection: Selections from 1900 to 1965
Jun 28, 2019–
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The Whitney's Collection
Sept 28, 2015–Apr 4, 2016
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America Is Hard to See
May 1–Sept 27, 2015
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1945 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting
Nov 27, 1945–Jan 10, 1946
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1944 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting
Nov 14–Dec 12, 1944
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1943 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Nov 23, 1943–Jan 4, 1944
Audio
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Horace Pippin, The Buffalo Hunt, 1933
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Horace Pippin, The Buffalo Hunt, 1933
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Narrator: At first glance, this winter landscape may appear almost empty: a tree, snow drifts, and a gloomy gray sky. But the painting’s title, Buffalo Hunt invites you to look more carefully. In the lower right, you can make out the shaggy outline of a roughly painted buffalo or two. Forms in the lower left seem like they could be hunting dogs. And hunched below the tree, there’s a silhouette of a crouching man carrying a rifle. Horace Pippin’s loose, almost abstract approach to the scene makes it seem like a dream, a memory, or a symbol of something larger. He leaves the painting open to interpretation—inviting us to think for ourselves about what the scene might mean.