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Title:After Supper
Artist:Horace Pippin (American, West Chester, Pennsylvania 1888–1946 West Chester, Pennsylvania)
Date:ca. 1935–39
Medium:Graphite on board
Dimensions:14 in. × 22 1/4 in. (35.6 × 56.5 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Bequest of Jane Kendall Gingrich, 1982
Object Number:1982.55.8
Inscription: Signed and inscribed (lower right, in graphite): H. PiPPiN / AFTER SUPPER—WEST CHESTER
[Robert Carlen Gallery, Philadelphia, until 1946]; [Charles Sessler, Philadelphia, 1946–47]; [Robert Carlen Gallery, Philadelphia, 1947; sold on March 18, 1947 to Hamilton]; Jane Hamilton, later Jane Kendall Gingrich, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., New York, and New Jersey (1947–d. 1981; her bequest to MMA)
Philadelphia Museum of Art. February 17–March 17, 1946, no catalogue.
Philadelphia. Art Alliance. "Horace Pippin Memorial Exhibition," April 8–May 4, 1947, no. 65 (as "After Supper—West Chester," 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. 136; as "After Supper, West Chester").
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.
Chadds Ford, Penn. Brandywine River Museum. "Horace Pippin: The Way I See It," April 25–July 19, 2015, no. 11.
Selden Rodman. Horace Pippin: A Negro Painter in America. New York, 1947, pp. 5, 22, 87, no. 114, ill., calls it a sketch for "After Supper, West Chester" and dates it 1935; locates it in the collection of Charles Sessler, Philadelphia.
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, p. 138, fig. 136, dates it about 1935.
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. 194.
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. 5.
Audrey Lewis inHorace Pippin: The Way I See It. Ed. Audrey Lewis. Exh. cat., Brandywine River Museum. Chadds Ford, Penn., 2015, p. 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), pp. 96, 99, 101, fig. 5 (color), date it about 1935 and note it is a study for the oil painting of the same name (Collection of Leon Hecht and Roert Pincus-Witten, New York).
Anne Monahan. Horace Pippin, American Modern. New Haven, 2020, pp. 28, 54–56, 105–6, 121, 134–35, 195, 211, fig. 25 (color).
"Behind the Scenes with Pauline Pfeiffer Hemingway and Jane
Kendall Mason." Hemingway Review 40 (Fall 2020), p. 120 n. 15.
Horace Pippin (American, West Chester, Pennsylvania 1888–1946 West Chester, Pennsylvania)
ca. 1936–39
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