Holy Mountain, III, by Horace Pippin, 1945.


A dark painting with green grass, dotted by red and white flowers. Trees in the background have African Americans hanging from the branches. A white robed clad African-American figure, holding a white cane, stands in the middle of the painting. He is surrounded by many animals. A young, black, male child sits on the ground on the right hand side of the painting.
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Holy Mountain, III, by Horace Pippin, 1945. Originally named, The Knowledge of God. Pippin wrote that the "little crosses tell us of them in the first world war." The figures hanging from the trees are lynchings. "You will see what they did and are still doing in the South."

The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution