The Barracks, by Horace Pippin, 1945.


A dark image of six bunks in a war barrack. On the bottom bunks two black men sit with their feet placed in the mud floor. In the middle left bunk a man reads a letter from home. The light in the room is by candles, which sit on each bunk.
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The Barracks, by Horace Pippin, 1945. Horace Pippin wrote of his war time in France, "I didn't know if they had sun there or not. I have not seen the sun in more than a month."

The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.