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Horace Pippin completes 'Holy Mountain' series

Self-taught Black painter Horace Pippin, whose right arm had been partially paralyzed by a World War I wound, completed his 'Holy Mountain' series in the mid-1940s, visionary paintings blending the Biblical prophecy of Isaiah with his firsthand experience of war and racial violence. His folk-primitive style made him one of the most critically regarded American painters of the decade.