Horace Pippin’s chilling landscape of the bombed-out French town of Champagne recalls his service during World War I (1914– 1918) with the 369th Infantry Regiment. Known as the Harlem Hellfighters, the heroic all-Black unit suffered the most casualties of any American regiment during the war. Pippin himself lost the use of his right hand at Champagne in 1918. His memories of ruptured earth and collapsing farmhouses remained vivid more than a decade later, when he taught himself painting to rehabilitate his injured arm and contend with the trauma. He wrote, “I can never forget suffering, and I will never forget sunset, that is when you could see it, so I came home with all of it in my mind and I Paint from it to Day.”