้horace pippin, as an african-american soldier during world war i, was wounded in his right arrm. he discovered, however, that by keeping his right wrist steady with his left hand, he could paint and draw. pippin was not trained, but his artistic actuitive feel for two-dimensional design and arrangement of color and patterns made him one of the finest primitive artists american has produced.
pippin did a series of painting on the abolitionist John Brown one on his war experiences, but he shied away from social