Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Rip Van Winkle, untitled drawing (Rip Van Winkle, his daughter and grandchild)
Medium: Ink on paper
Date: 1921
Dimensions:
sheet: 11 7/8 x 7 1/2 (30.1 x 19 cm), with irregular piece adhered over bottom portion: 4 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. (11.4 x 19 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.2442
Research Number: NCW: 2442
InscribedUpper right in pencil: 8631; lower right: - 4 1/2" -; upper right in ink: page 69 (square around number); below image: W (square around letter)
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