Horace Pippin’s 1943 painting 'Sunday Morning Breakfast' depicts a tranquil familial gathering, but beneath the pleasing brushstrokes lies a subtle and striking critique of American society
’s “Sunday Morning Breakfast” exudes charm. In a seemingly plain, straightforward way, it captures a black family sharing a meal on the Sabbath, a treasured moment in simpler times, before television, Sunday business hours and other modern distractions were widely adopted.
Look a little closer, however, and the painting, owned by the Saint Louis Art Museum, becomes much more. Quietly, and with great acuity, Pippin telegraphs the family’s impoverished state and, perhaps because of that, suggests tension in the domestic dynamic just beneath the surface.Continue reading your article with
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