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1939

The Getaway

Horace Pippin

American, 1888 - 1946

Pippin began The Getaway as a daytime scene with a blue sky, red barns, and a fox standing still in the snow. His inspiration to transform the work into a nighttime setting may have come from seeing Winslow Homer’s Fox Hunt at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. In Homer’s painting, the fox is pursued by crows and appears to be running for its life. In Pippin’s snowy portrayal, the fox has captured a bird and escapes in the moonlight.

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Custom Prints for "The Getaway" (336499)

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Snowy Day Resource

In this lesson, students look at images of snow from rural Pennsylvania to urban Japan. They then create snow scenes of their own, with the chance to explore watercolor resist and a snowflake effect using salt.
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