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FOREWORD

Horace Pippin has been honored as a primitive artist, a Black artist, a Pennsylvania artist, and a combat artist crippled in World War I. He was all of these. But for this exhibition, we honor him simply as Horace Pippin, the artist. 

We are The Phillips Collection, of Washington, D.C., whose founder, Duncan Phillips, acquired his first Pippin in 1943; the Terry Dintenfass Gallery of New York City, whose [[strikethrough]] benefit [[/strikethrough]] exhibition will benefit the Schomb[[strikethrough]]e[[/strikethrough]]urg Center; and the Brandywine River Museum, of Chadd's Ford, Pennsylvania,--Pippin's home country--which through this show continues to [[strikethrough]] can [[/strikethrough]] celebrate the artistic accomplishments of its region. 

We feel that a retrospective exhibition honoring Horace Pippin was long overdue. But since his paintings are widely dispersed among scores of collectors, it has taken substantial research and effort to find and borrow an outstanding and representative selection. Roughly on third of Pippin's life work is represented in this show.

We are grateful to the many private collectors who have agreed to lend their paintings for the duration of this show. Especially in the case of some of the individual collectors this represents a sacrifice which we deeply appreciate.