I Tell My Heart. The Art of Horace Pippin by Stein, Judith - 1993

Universe Pub. Paper Back . 4.1 PB extra nice +5%.

New York NY: Universe Publishing, 1993. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Oversize softcover, 210 pp. Catalogs a 1994-95 traveling exhibit featuring the work of this major 20th century African American painter. Self taught, Pippin's work illuminates the lives of African Americans (e.g. soldiers, families). Organized thematically with accompanying essays. B&w and color plates throughout. Exhibit organized by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Book Condition : Very Good; no text marks; light cover corner wear; light spotting/staining to text block..

Philadelphia, PA: Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts in association with Universe Publishing, 1993. First edition. Softcover. 210 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran January 21 through April 17, 1994 at the Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts and then traveled to four other locations for additional dates. Foreword by Linda Bantel. Introduction by David C. Driskell. Essays by Judith E. Stein, Cornel West, Judith Wilson, Richard J. Powell, Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, and Mark F. Bockrath & Barbara A. Buckley. Includes 191 illustrations with some in color. A near fine copy in wrappers with a couple of small institutional stamps but otherwise a very clean copy.

Universe Pub. Very Good+. 1993. Paperback. 0876637853 . Clean crisp bright. No marks. Slightly bumped cover tips. As art history absorbs the lessons of multiculturalism, this book, based on an exhibition, should launch Pippin (1888-1946) into a well-deserved place in the pantheon of modern American painters. Pippin was a self-taught African American artist who scrutinized his world with visual honesty. His paintings have been previously summarized as "primitive" or folk art "naive" in technique and vision; Stein ( Red Grooms , LJ 7/86) and assorted other scholars bring Pippin's work back into its full artistic worth and provide it with social context. The book is beautifully organized, with essays on the artist's life and times, a superb section on technique, and a reference section that includes chronology, exhibition history, a catalogue raisonne of known works, and an index to the paintings. This intellectually crafted and emotionally appealing look at a black artist's experiences is… Read More

Philadelphia Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1993, paperback. Exhibition catalog, with 191 color and black-and-white reproductions. Includes paintings index, bibliography, list of known works, chronology. -- Softcover, 8.5x11 inches. Condition: near fine. ISBN 087663785X

Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1993. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. 210pp. Ink name on front free endpaper, else very good in publisher's wraps.

Universe Pub, 1993-09. Paperback. Good.

This is a like new hardback in a fine clean and bright dust jacket. (T800-004)

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts/Universe Publishing 1993. Quarto softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts/Universe Publishing, 1993. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 210 pages, 191 illustrations most in color. Bibliography and index. One of the foremost African-American artists of the twentieth century, Horace Pippin came to prominence in the late 1930s between the heyday of the American Scene painters and the ascendancy of Abstract Expressionism. An unschooled painter who was a disabled World War I veteran, Pippin is represented in public and private collections across America. I Tell My Heart features over 110 Pippin paintings including many never before reproduced nor shown in public since the artist's lifetime, as well as many black and white archival photographs of Pippin and his contemporaries. Record # 350476