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Title:Holy Mountain IV
Artist:Horace Pippin (American, West Chester, Pennsylvania 1888–1946 West Chester, Pennsylvania)
Date:1946
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:26 × 36 in. (66 × 91.4 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Bequest of Jane Kendall Gingrich, 1982
Object Number:1982.55.2
[Carlen Galleries, Philadelphia, in 1947]; Jane Hamilton, later Jane Kendall Gingrich, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., New York, and New Jersey (until d. 1981; her bequest to MMA)
Philadelphia. Art Alliance. "Horace Pippin Memorial Exhibition," April 8–May 4, 1947, no. 49 (as "The Holy Mountain [unfinished]," lent by the Robert Carlen Gallery, Philadelphia).
Philadelphia. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. "I Tell My Heart: The Art of Horace Pippin," January 21–April 17, 1994, unnumbered cat. (fig. 171).
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. "The Direct Eye: Self-Taught Artists and Their Influence on Twentieth Century Art," June 19–October 18, 1998, no catalogue.
Chadds Ford, Penn. Brandywine River Museum. "Horace Pippin: The Way I See It," April 25–July 19, 2015, no. 68 (as "The Holy Mountain IV").
Richard J. Powell. "Biblical and Spiritual Motifs in the Art of Horace Pippin." Beholding Christ and Christianity in African American Art. Ed. James Romaine and Phoebe Wolfskill. University Park, Penn., pp. 136, 139–41 [abridged version of Ref. Powell 1993], discusses the "Holy Mountain" series.
Selden Rodman. Horace Pippin: A Negro Painter in America. New York, 1947, pp. 24–25, 86, no. 100, pl. 45, calls it "The Holy Mountain IV" and locates it in the collection of the Carlen Galleries, Philadelphia.
Leon Anthony Arkus in3 Self-Taught Pennsylvania Artists: Hicks, Kane, Pippin. Exh. cat., Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute. [Pittsburgh], [1966], unpaginated.
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. 167–68, fig. 171.
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. 203.
Richard J. Powell 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. 127–28, 130–34, discusses the "Holy Mountain" series.
Audrey Lewis inHorace Pippin: The Way I See It. Ed. Audrey Lewis. Exh. cat., Brandywine River Museum. Chadds Ford, Penn., 2015, pp. 74, 83, 85, 87 n. 32, p. 170, colorpl. 68.
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, 102, 107, 114 n. 57, fig. 7 (color).
Anne Monahan. Horace Pippin, American Modern. New Haven, 2020, pp. 4, 62, 106, 138, 155, 195, 219
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"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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