The Ending of the War, Starting Home
Horace Pippin, American, 1888 - 1946
Geography:
Made in United States, North and Central America
Date:
1930-1933Medium:
Oil on canvasDimensions:
26 × 30 1/16 inches (66 × 76.4 cm) Framed: 32 x 39 1/2 x 2 inches (81.3 x 100.3 x 5.1 cm)Copyright:
Curatorial Department:
American ArtObject Location:
1941-2-1Credit Line:
Gift of Robert Carlen, 1941
Made in United States, North and Central America
Date:
1930-1933Medium:
Oil on canvasDimensions:
26 × 30 1/16 inches (66 × 76.4 cm) Framed: 32 x 39 1/2 x 2 inches (81.3 x 100.3 x 5.1 cm)Copyright:
Curatorial Department:
American ArtObject Location:
Currently not on view
Accession Number:1941-2-1Credit Line:
Gift of Robert Carlen, 1941
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african american art [x] african american artist [x] battle [x] disability [x] soldiers [x]The End of the War: Starting Home reflects Horace Pippin’s traumatic wartime experiences. The artist started working on this painting nearly fifteen years after he returned to the United States from serving in France in World War I. Wounded in his right arm while fighting as a member of one of four African American regiments to see combat, Pippin had turned to painting to help his process of recovery. This image of combat, fear, and surrender condenses terrifying episodes he had documented in his wartime journals—events he later said “brought out all the art in me.” The frame, which shows weaponry and helmets, further heightens the poignancy of Pippin’s depiction of the human dimension of war.