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Rip Van Winkle
by John Quidor
Exhibition history
New York, National Academy of Design, Annual Exhibition, 1829, cat. 8.
Publications
Celia L. Ruder, "John Quidor and Washington Irving: The Outcast and the Hero" (MA Thesis, University of Wisconsin, 1966), 89-90. David M. Sokol, John Quidor, Painter of American Legend, exh. cat. (Wichita Art Museum; University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1973), 80 (ill.), dated incorrectly as 1867. Christopher Kent Wilson, "The Life and Work of John Quidor" (PhD diss, Yale University, 1982), 51-52, 261-262. Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1983), 7 (ill.). Christopher Kent Wilson, "John Quidor's The Return of Rip Van Winkle at the National Gallery of Art: The Interpretation of an American Myth," American Art Journal 19, no. 4 (Autumn 1987): 44, n. 13. Ross Barrett, Rendering Violence: Riots, Strikes, and Upheaval in Nineteenth–Century American Art (University of California Press, 2014), ill. cover, 40 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- John Quidor / American, 1801–1881
- Date
- 1829
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 69.9 × 87.3 cm (27 1/2 × 34 3/8 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- George F. Harding Collection
- Accession no.
- 1982.765
Provenance
With Macbeth Gallery, New York, 1939; consigned to the Downtown Gallery, New York, 1940. George F. Harding Museum, Chicago, by 1966; transferred to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1982.
More by John Quidor in museum collections
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