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Pippin Painting
Horace
Pippin
Here is another
painting of John Brown going to his hanging. This one is by the
African American artist, Horace Pippin. He painted this in 1942,
almost 100 years after the event.
John
Brown Going to His Hanging (1942)
by Horace Pippin (1888-1946)
Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia.
John Lambert Fund
To
compare and contrast this painting with the one you looked at
before by Thomas Hovenden, click on Painting.
Here
are some questions to answer about the Pippin and Hovenden paintings.
1.
List all the ways in which the two paintings are similar.
2. List all the ways in which the two paintings are different.
3. How do the people in the Pippin painting feel? Most of the
people in this painting are facing away from us, so it's a bit
hard to tell. But look at the faces you can see. What feeling
are they expressing?
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