Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Rip Van Winkle, untitled drawing (Diedrich Knickerbocker)
Medium: Ink on paper
Date: 1921
Dimensions:
sheet: 7 1/2 x 11 1/4 in. (19 x 28.5 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.2422
Research Number: NCW: 2422
InscribedUpper right in pencil: 8631; lower right: -4-; upper right in ink: page 1 (square around number); lower left embossed with a circled thistle
ProvenanceThe artist; (?); Private collection; (Stuart Kingston Galleries, Wilmington, DE)
Exhibition HistoryChicago, IL, 1997, checklist numbers 38-61
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 207; Christine B. Podmaniczky, "An Album of Drawings by N. C. W. Wyeth," The Hunt, Sept./Oct. 1996, ps. 18-19
Curatorial RemarksAll drawings for Rip Van Winkle except the title page drawing (NCW 197) and drawings for pages 5 and 8 (NCW 2425, 2426) were adhered to the pages of a collector's album. The album was deconstructed and the drawings removed from the album pages in 1997.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Digital scan from publication, Brandywine River Museum Library
Photo Credit:BRM staff, 12/2005