Artwork Title: Mr. Prejudice

Mr. Prejudice, 1943

Horace Pippin

Pippin’s paintings are in the tradition of other New-Deal artists like Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton, whose murals and canvases depicted ordinary rural life. While Farm Security Photographers like Walker Evans and Gordon Parks captured everyday scenes with their cameras, Pippin communicated with wood, canvas, and paint. His painting, Mr. Prejudice, (shown above) is a nod to Depression-era propaganda posters, with Mr. Prejudice driving a wedge into the “V” of victory. In the foreground, Pippin depicts white figures on one side of the canvas and black on the other, segregation as Pippin experienced it during the war and after. (http://www.gwarlingo.com/2013/horace-pippin/)
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