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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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