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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Rip Van Winkle by John Quidor
    John Quidor. Rip Van Winkle, 1829. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00001396

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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.

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