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Horace Pippin was the first self-taught African-American artist to achieve national acclaim. Despite a wound to his right arm during World War I, he never gave up painting.
Pippin was good at depicting everyday events and historical figures, often using a simplified style of flat shapes and strong colors to connect American slavery history, segregation, and religious themes. In the American mass media of the 1910s and 1920s, the “blue tiger” was a recurring symbol of the unattainable, and the black bear symbolized the wilderness. Tiger and bear, in contrasting tones, appear equally ferocious. With their impending conflict, Pippin may be alluding to racial conflict.
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40.64 x 71.12 cm
Indianapolis Museum of Art
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