Now all roads lead to France and heavy is the tread
Of the living; but the dead returning lightly dance.
Edward Thomas, Roads

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

War Artist: Corporal Horace Pippin, 369th Infantry, AEF













Walt Kudlick helped me put together this slideshow once upon a time.





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3 comments:

  1. masprattSeptember 3, 2014 at 10:12 AM

    Where is his journal located?

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  2. Donna WagnerSeptember 3, 2014 at 6:53 PM

    His notebooks and letters are in the Archives of American Art in the Smithsonian Institute. They were digitized in 2006 and are available there.

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  3. MLSeptember 4, 2014 at 3:42 AM

    For those in the Washington, DC-area, the Phillips Collection is presenting a lecture entitled "War, History, and Memory in the Life and Work of Jacob Lawrence and Horace Pippin" on September 18 at 6:30 pm:
    http://www.phillipscollection.org/events/2014-09-18-jacob-lawrence

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