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Title:Victorian Interior II
Artist:Horace Pippin (American, West Chester, Pennsylvania 1888–1946 West Chester, Pennsylvania)
Date:1945
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:25 3/16 × 30 3/16 in. (64 × 76.7 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, 1958
Object Number:58.26
Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right): H. PiPPiN. / APR 12-45; signed and dated (verso): H. PIPPIN. / APRIL 12.1945
[Carlen Galleries, Philadelphia, 1945]; [Downtown Gallery, New York, 1945; stock no. 44; sold on December 7, 1945 to Phillips]; Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington, D. C. (1945–46; sold, in exchange for Horace Pippin "The Barracks," on January 12, 1946, to Downtown Gallery); [Downtown Gallery, New York, 1946; sold in 1946 to Rodman]; Selden Rodman, New York (1946–58; sold to MMA)
Washington, D.C. Phillips Memorial Gallery. "Three Negro Artists: Horace Pippin (1888–1946), Jacob Lawrence, Richmond Barthe," December 14, 1946–January 6, 1947, no. 15 (as "Victorian Interior," lent by Mr. Selden Rodman).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Three Centuries of American Painting," April 9–October 17, 1965, unnum. checklist.
Pittsburgh. Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute. "3 Self-Taught Pennsylvania Artists: Hicks, Kane, Pippin," October 21–December 4, 1966, unnumbered cat. (pl. 119, as "Victorian Interior").
Washington, D.C. Corcoran Gallery of Art. "3 Self-Taught Pennsylvania Artists: Hicks, Kane, Pippin," January 6–February 19, 1967, unnumbered cat.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors from the Museum's Collections," October 1–December 7, 1969, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Tribute to a Curator: Robert Beverly Hale," November 16, 1978–March 4, 1979, extended to March 18, 1979, unnum. checklist.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Painting: 1905–1950," April 19–October 7, 1991, no catalogue.
Philadelphia. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. "I Tell My Heart: The Art of Horace Pippin," January 21–April 17, 1994, unnumbered cat. (fig. 112; as "Victorian Interior" also known as "Victorian Interior II").
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. "American Still Life: 1915–1950," February 1, 1995–January 28, 1996, no catalogue (on view from May 12, 1995).
Richmond, Va. Marsh Art Gallery. "Still Life: The Object in American Art, 1915–1995. Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," January 3–February 28, 1997, no. 28.
Little Rock. Arkansas Arts Center. "Still Life: The Object in American Art, 1915–1995. Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," March 28–May 23, 1997, no. 28.
Newport Beach, Calif. Newport Harbor Art Museum. "Still Life: The Object in American Art, 1915–1995. Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," June 20–August 15, 1997, no. 28.
Tulsa, Okla. Philbrook Museum of Art. "Still Life: The Object in American Art, 1915–1995. Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 12–November 7, 1997, no. 28.
Palm Beach, Fla. The Society of the Four Arts. "Still Life: The Object in American Art, 1915–1995. Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," January 9–February 8, 1998, no. 28.
Salina, Kansas. Salina Art Center. "Still Life: The Object in American Art, 1915–1995. Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," March 6–May 3, 1998, no. 28.
Orlando, Fla. Mennello Museum of American Art. "American Folk Art Masters," September 21, 2001–January 6, 2002.
Reading, Penn. Reading Public Museum. "Horace Pippin," February 1–April 20, 2003.
Chadds Ford, Penn. Brandywine River Museum. "Horace Pippin: The Way I See It," April 25–July 19, 2015, no. 54 (as "Victorian Interior" [also known as "Victorian Interior II"]).
Selden Rodman. Horace Pippin: A Negro Painter in America. New York, 1947, pp. 16, 21, 86, no. 89.
Henry Geldzahler. American Painting in the Twentieth Century. New York, 1965, p. 124, ill.
Leon Anthony Arkus in3 Self-Taught Pennsylvania Artists: Hicks, Kane, Pippin. Exh. cat., Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute. [Pittsburgh], [1966], unpaginated, pl. 119.
Selden Rodman and Carole Cleaver. Horace Pippin: The Artist as a Black American. Garden City, N.Y, 1972, p. 80, colorpl. 6, as "Victorian Interior," 1946.
Lowery S. Sims. Selected Works by Black Artists from the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation. [New York], 1976, unpaginated, calls it "Victorian Interior".
A. Hyatt Mayor. The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Favorite Paintings. New York, 1979, pp. 98–99, ill. (color), calls it "Victorian Interior" and dates it 1946.
Lowery Sims. "The Metropolitan: Collecting Black Art." Routes Magazine 3 (May 1980), pp. 24–25, calls it "Victorian Interior".
Lynda Roscoe Hartigan 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. 117–18, 121, fig. 112.
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, p. 175.
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. 202.
Robert Henkes. Themes in American Painting: A Reference Work to Common Styles and Genres. Jefferson, N.C., 1993, p. 153, ill. p. 154, calls it "Victorian Interior," and dates it 1958.
Lowery Stokes Sims inStill Life: The Object in American Art, 1915-1995. Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., Marsh Art Gallery, Richmond, Va. New York, 1996, pp. 86, 170, no. 28, ill. p. 87 (color).
Sabine Rewald inStill Life: The Object in American Art, 1915-1995. Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., Marsh Art Gallery, Richmond, Va. New York, 1996, p. 80.
"Philbrook Museum Presents 'Still Life'." Henryetta Daily Free-Lance (October 16, 1997), p. 3, calls it "Victorian Parlor II".
Lowery Stokes Sims and Sabine Rewald. "Still Life: The Object in American Art." American Art Review 9 (September–October 1997), ill. p. 140 (color).
"'Still Life' the Focus of State Museum Exhibition." Post-Star (May 28, 1998), p. 13, calls it "Victorian Parlor II".
"American Still Lifes at NYS Museum." Northeast (June 1998), p. 44.
Jane Kallir. "Duncan Phillips and the American Popular Tradition." The Eye of Duncan Phillips: A Collection in the Making. Ed. Erika D. Passantino. Washington, D.C., 1999, pp. 171, 721 n. 8.
Leslie Furth. "Horace Pippin (1888–1946)." The Eye of Duncan Phillips: A Collection in the Making. Ed. Erika D. Passantino. Washington, D.C., 1999, pp. 183, 723 n. 10.
Audrey Lewis inHorace Pippin: The Way I See It. Ed. Audrey Lewis. Exh. cat., Brandywine River Museum. Chadds Ford, Penn., 2015, pp. 74, 80, 83, 87 n. 39, p. 169, colorpl. 54.
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. 62, 199, 202, 218, 247 n. 3.
Horace Pippin (American, West Chester, Pennsylvania 1888–1946 West Chester, Pennsylvania)
ca. 1936–39
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