Painting of a cabin set below a dark blue sky and fluffy white clouds. Behind it is a field of many small white dots. In front, a dark-skinned woman sits and a dark-skinned child plays among roaming chickens and dogs in a fenced-in yard.

Cabin in the Cotton

Horace Pippin (American, 1888–1946)

Date: c. 1931–37
Medium: Oil on cotton, mounted on Masonite
Size: 20 × 33½ in (51 × 85 cm)
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago, accession 1990.417. See the museum’s record
Credit: Purchased with funds provided by Thomas F. Pick and Mary P. Hines in memory of their mother Frances W. Pick

Public domain image courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago (CC0).

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Pick the furniture and a print size to see it to scale on your wall.

Where Print size

Print: 24 × 40 in, the whole painting on 30 × 40 in paper
Center: 55¼ in (140 cm) from the floor
Above the sofa: 8 in (20 cm) from the sofa to the frame
Ideal width: 56 to 63 in over an 84 in sofa
Why this height: Centered at eye level, this frame would not sit 6 to 10 in above the sofa, so the 8 in gap sets the height.

24 × 40 in landscape print (61 × 102 cm), centered 55¼ in from the floor, 8 in above the sofa. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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Print it

No standard paper matches this painting’s proportions closely, so print it whole with a white border, or trim the edges to fill the paper.

Paper	Filling the paper	Printed whole	Frame	Frame with a 2 in mat	Frame with a 3 in mat	Sharpness
5 × 7 in	trims 16 %	4¼ × 7 in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	281 dpi, crisp from a step back
12 × 16 in	trims 20 %	9½ × 16 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	123 dpi, soft up close
18 × 24 in	trims 20 %	14½ × 24 in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	82 dpi, soft up close
20 × 30 in	trims 10 %	18 × 30 in	20 × 30 in ready-made	24 × 34 in custom	26 × 36 in custom	65 dpi, soft up close
24 × 36 in	trims 10 %	21½ × 36 in	24 × 36 in ready-made	28 × 40 in custom	30 × 42 in custom	54 dpi, soft up close
30 × 40 in	trims 20 %	24 × 40 in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	49 dpi, soft up close

Sharpness is worked out from the largest file the museum offers. Above 300 dpi a print holds up at arm’s length; 150 dpi is plenty for a picture seen from across a sofa.

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Free for any use, including commercial: this image is public domain (CC0).

Thumbnail (WebP) 560 × 331 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 499 px from Art Institute of Chicago
Print file 2,000 × 1,184 px from Art Institute of Chicago
The museum’s record of this painting Art Institute of Chicago

Public domain image courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago (CC0). You may print, share, change and sell it without asking. Read what that means on our image license page, and how to get a good result in how to print a public-domain painting.