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American Artist
330 WEST 42nd STREET, NEW YORK

January 31, 1945

Mr. Horace Pippin
c/o Downtown Galleries
43 East 51st Street
New York 22, N. Y.

Dear Mr. Pippin:

In the April number of American Artist we are printing a number of color plates from the paintings purchased by Encyclopedia Britannica. Yours is among them, and I am writing to ask if you will give me a little information about your picture. Evidently it is based upon some story or a conception which I am sure our readers would like to understand. Won't you write and tell me what the picture means as a whole, referring to the various details - including those interesting figures in the background and the crosses between the tree trunks?

I'm very happy to be able to reproduce a specimen of your work. I know our readers will be glad to get acquainted with you in this way.

Cordially yours,
Ernest W. Watson
Ernest W. Watson
Editor

NWW/EB
Envelope enclosed