...a small painting of Abraham Lincoln and his father building a log cabin caught my eye. A wrinkled woman with fiery hair and dangling diamond earrings froze beside me, also awestruck. “Look at that one,” she said to a friend, staring up at the wall. “How beautiful. Who on earth painted it?” ... As Steve Conn writes in his essay “The Politics of Painting: Horace Pippin the Historian,” “For many African-Americans, Lincoln remained their Moses. Pippin’s scenes from Lincoln’s life honored that memory.” Carl Sandburg’s popular biographies of Lincoln appeared in 1926 and 1939, and in 1942 composer Aaron Copland set the Gettysburg Address to music.... In the cases of both Brown and Lincoln, Pippin is creating a new mythology for these historic figures. His paintings tell us less about John Brown and Abraham Lincoln as actual men and more about how these two figures were mythologized by some members of the African American community. (http://www.gwarlingo.com/2013/horace-pippin/)