Saturday Night Bath
1945
Horace Pippin invites us into a cozy, rustic room where a woman in a crisp white dress and red headscarf is busy scrubbing in a large wooden tub. The scene is anchored by those bold, vertical wooden floorboards that stretch across the foreground, acting almost like a stage for this quiet domestic moment. To the right, a massive black cast-iron stove puffs out smoke, while a cat dozes peacefully on a colorful striped rug nearby. As a self-taught artist who overcame a severe World War I arm injury to paint, Pippin masterfully captured the intimate, everyday lives of African American families with this charming, flattened perspective.
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