Sunday Morning Breakfast
- Artist
- Horace Pippin, American, 1888–1946
- Date
- 1943
- Material
- Oil on fabric
- Classification
- Paintings
- Current Location
- On View, Gallery 333
- Dimensions
- 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
framed: 21 9/16 × 25 9/16 × 2 1/4 in. (54.8 × 64.9 × 5.7 cm) - Credit Line
- Museum Funds, Friends Endowment Fund; and Bequest of Marie Setz Hertslet, Museum Purchase, Eliza McMillan Trust, and Gift of Mrs. Carll Tucker, by exchange
- Rights
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- Object Number
- 164:2015
NOTES
A kettle whistles on a glowing stove as two children eagerly await their breakfast in this warm family scene. The lively everyday narrative is balanced by the geometric simplicity of the door, curtained window, cupboard, and flat patterns of the apron and rugs.
Horace Pippin was a self-taught African American artist who began painting after he was wounded in World War I (1914–1918). His laborious painting process involved propping up his permanently injured right arm with a poker and guiding it with his left hand. Sunday Morning Breakfast is a scene remembered from his youth in Goshen, New York.
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