Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Rip Van Winkle, untitled drawing (New Year cake imprinted with face of Diedrich Knickerbocker)
Medium: Ink on paper
Date: 1921
Dimensions:
sheet: 14 5/8 x 11 5/8 in. (37.1 x 29.5 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.2424
Research Number: NCW: 2424
InscribedUpper right in pencil: 8631; lower right: -2"-; lower left in ink: TEXT PAGE 4 (square around number)
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