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Born February 22, 1888 • West Chester • Pennsylvania
Died July 6, 1946 (aged 58) • West Chester • Pennsylvania
Movement / Style outsider art
Role In World War I

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Cabin in the Cotton, oil on panel by Horace Pippin, mid-1930s; in the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson
president of United States
George S. Patton
George Patton
United States general
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover
president of United States
John J. Pershing
John J. Pershing
United States general
William Mitchell
William Mitchell
United States Army general
Walton H. Walker
American military officer
Robert Henri
American artist
Walter Hines Page, detail of a portrait by P.A. de Laszlo; in the collection of the Department of Archives and History, North Carolina
Walter Hines Page
American author and diplomat
House, 1920
Edward M. House
American diplomat
Sims, William Sowden
William Sowden Sims
United States admiral
Liggett, Hunter
Hunter Liggett
United States general
John Pierpont Morgan, Jr.
American financier
Alvin York
Alvin York
United States military hero
William Hood Simpson
United States general
Frank Buckles
Frank Buckles
American serviceman
Bliss, Tasker Howard
Tasker Howard Bliss
United States military leader
McAdoo, William G.
William G. McAdoo
American politician
Newton D. Baker, 1915
Newton D. Baker
American politician
March, Peyton Conway
Peyton Conway March
United States Army officer
Harbord, James G.
James G. Harbord
United States military officer

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