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Title:Sleepers
Artist:Horace Pippin (American, West Chester, Pennsylvania 1888–1946 West Chester, Pennsylvania)
Date:1943
Medium:Oil on canvas board
Dimensions:9 × 12 in. (22.9 × 30.5 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Bequest of Jane Kendall Gingrich, 1982
Object Number:1982.55.3
Inscription: Signed (lower right): H. PiPPiN.
[Carlen Galleries, Inc., Philadelphia, until 1943 or 1944; sold in 1943 or early 1944 to Hamilton]; Jane Hamilton, later Jane Kendall Gingrich, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C, New York, and New Jersey (by 1944–d. 1981; her bequest to MMA)
Philadelphia. Carlen Galleries. "Negro Art Show," April 1943, no catalogue (as "Sleepers").
New York. Downtown Gallery. "H. Pippin: Exhibition of Paintings," February 15–March 14, 1944, no. 9 (lent by Mr. and Mrs. John D. M. Hamilton).
Philadelphia. Art Alliance. "Horace Pippin Memorial Exhibition," April 8–May 4, 1947, no. 34 (lent by Mrs. Jane Hamilton, Washington).
Philadelphia. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. "I Tell My Heart: The Art of Horace Pippin," January 21–April 17, 1994, unnumbered cat. (fig. 142).
Art Institute of Chicago. "I Tell My Heart: The Art of Horace Pippin," April 30–July 10, 1994, unnumbered cat.
Cincinnati Art Museum. "I Tell My Heart: The Art of Horace Pippin," July 28–October 9, 1994, unnumbered cat.
Baltimore Museum of Art. "I Tell My Heart: The Art of Horace Pippin," October 26, 1994–January 1, 1995, unnumbered cat.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "I Tell My Heart: The Art of Horace Pippin," February 1–April 30, 1995, unnumbered cat.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Small Interiors," February 17–July 21, 1996, no catalogue.
New York. Studio Museum in Harlem. "Challenge of the Modern: African-American Artists 1925–1945," January 23–March 30, 2003, no. 102.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "XS," December 6, 2011–April 15, 2012, no catalogue.
Chadds Ford, Penn. Brandywine River Museum. "Horace Pippin: The Way I See It," April 25–July 19, 2015, no. 46.
"Carlen Offers Work by Local Negro Artists." Philadelphia Inquirer (April 4, 1943).
Selden Rodman. Horace Pippin: A Negro Painter in America. New York, 1947, p. 85, no. 67, locates it in the collection of Mrs. John D. M. Hamilton, Paoli, Pennsylvania.
Mark F. Bockrath and Barbara A. Buckley in Judith E. Stein. I Tell My Heart: The Art of Horace Pippin. Exh. cat., Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. New York, 1993, pp. 172, 175.
Judith Wilson in Judith E. Stein. I Tell My Heart: The Art of Horace Pippin. Exh. cat., Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. New York, 1993, pp. 142–46, 162 n. 8, fig. 142 (color).
Anne Monahan in Judith E. Stein. I Tell My Heart: The Art of Horace Pippin. Exh. cat., Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. New York, 1993, p. 199.
Lowery Stokes Sims. Challenge of the Modern: African-American Artists 1925–1945. Exh. cat., Studio Museum in Harlem. Vol. 1, New York, 2003, pp. 43, 120, no. 102, ill. p. 55 (color).
Jacqueline Francis inHorace Pippin: The Way I See It. Ed. Audrey Lewis. Exh. cat., Brandywine River Museum. Chadds Ford, Penn., 2015, pp. 9, 168, colorpl. 46.
Audrey Lewis inHorace Pippin: The Way I See It. Ed. Audrey Lewis. Exh. cat., Brandywine River Museum. Chadds Ford, Penn., 2015, pp. 85, 87 n. 32.
Anne Monahan, Isabelle Duvernois, and Silvia A. Centeno. "'Working My Thought More Perfectly': Horace Pippin’s 'The Lady of the Lake'." Metropolitan Museum Journal 52 (2017), p. 96.
Anne Monahan. Horace Pippin, American Modern. New Haven, 2020, pp. 51, 56, 158, 190–91, 195, 217, 232 n. 82, p. 246 n. 108, figs. 26 (color), 111 (installed in Hamilton residence, ca. 1947).
"Behind the Scenes with Pauline Pfeiffer Hemingway and Jane
Kendall Mason." Hemingway Review 40 (Fall 2020), p. 120 n. 15, calls it "Asleep".
Horace Pippin (American, West Chester, Pennsylvania 1888–1946 West Chester, Pennsylvania)
ca. 1935–39
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