Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, 1976 by Mildred D. Taylor illustrations by Jerry Pinkney
John Brown Going to His Hanging, 1942 Oil on canvas, 24 1/8 x 30 1/4 in. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: John Lambert Fund
Dial Press
Selected Plays, 1977 by Tennessee Williams illustrations by Jerry Pinkney
CHARLES PRIDGEN American 1922–1991
The Franklin Library and Easton Press Leather Books
Lithographer and printmaker Charles Pridgen was Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir, 1979 by Eloise Greenfield and Lessie Jones Little illustrations by Jerry Pinkney HarperCollins
an artist and teacher who influenced a generation of younger artists, including Moe Brooker, John E. Dowell, Jr. and Raymond Saunders. Born in Philadelphia, Pridgen studied at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art and worked at Beck Offset Printing Company in Pennsauken, New Jersey, for
Illustration from Folktales and Fairy Tales of Africa, 1967, by Jerry Pinkney (Published by Silver Burdett Co.)
Pearl Bailey, Actress, 1940, 1940 (negative), 2015 (print), by John W. Mosley (John W. Mosley Photograph Collection, Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, PA)
HORACE PIPPIN
fifteen years. He drew inspiration from innovative
American, 1888–1946
visual artists, such as Paul Klee; literary figures, such as Langston Hughes; and musical genres, such as
A native of West Chester, Pennsylvania, Horace
jazz. Artists, writers, and musicians alike gathered at
Pippin lived primarily in New York and New Jersey
his studio across from City Hall in the 1950s and 1960s
until 1917, when he enlisted to serve in World War
to discuss art, philosophy, and education. His work is in
I. He was sent back to West Chester in 1919, after is the recipient of numerous awards, including a
private collections and the African American Museum
sustaining a gunshot wound in his right arm—the
Caldecott Medal, five Coretta Scott King Awards,
in Philadelphia.
arm he nonetheless began to paint with soon after
and four Coretta Scott King Honor Awards, and five
his return. His career gained momentum in the 1930s,
New York Times “Best Illustrated Books.” Pinkney
and in 1940 he received the support of influential
was also a nominee for the 1997 Hans Christian
Philadelphia collector Albert C. Barnes. Though he
Andersen Illustration Medal, recognizing those whose
studied briefly at the Barnes Foundation, Pippin was
complete works have made a lasting contribution to
a self-taught artist who garnered praise from notable
children’s literature. The artist has had over thirty solo
figures such as Alain Locke for the refinement of his
exhibitions of his work at institutions such as the Art
folk style. His canvases and burnt-wood paintings
Institute of Chicago; the Brandywine River Museum
have been collected by museums throughout the
of Art, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania; the New York
United States and Europe, including the Pennsylvania
JERRY PINKNEY
Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in
Academy of the Fine Arts, the Barnes Foundation,
American, born 1939
Black Culture; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and the
the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Phillips
Philadelphia Museum of Art. His work is in numerous
Collection, Washington, DC.
Civil Rights Demonstration, August 2, 1965, 1965 (negative), 2015 (print) Digital print, 9 1/4 x 10 in. John W. Mosley Photograph Collection, Charles L. Blockson AfroAmerican Collection, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, PA
Children at Play on Chicken Bone Beach, 1960s, 1960s (negative), 2015 (print) Digital print, 8 x 10 in. John W. Mosley Photograph Collection, Charles L. Blockson AfroAmerican Collection, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, PA
Born in Philadelphia, Jerry Pinkney studied at the
public and private collections.
Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts). Since 1964 he has been illustrating children’s books. His books have been translated into sixteen languages and published in fourteen countries. He
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Folktales and Fairy Tales of Africa, 1967 selected and retold by Lila Green illustrations by Jerry Pinkney Published by Silver Burdett Co.
Marian Anderson II, 1940 Oil on canvas, 27 x 23 x 2 1/4 in. Art & Artifacts Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
The Blues, c. 1950 Oil on canvas, 37 x 61 in. The African American Museum in Philadelphia: Gift of Kay and Doris Pridgen in honor of Doris Power
Study, c. 1950 Graphite on paper, 7 3/4 x 14 1/8 in. Collection of Lewis Tanner Moore
RAYMOND SAUNDERS American, born 1934 Raymond Saunders incorporates painting and collage into his abstract, mixed-media works depicting urban black life and culture. Born in Pittsburgh, he attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) from 1950 to 1953 before
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