
Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain
Rip Van Winkle
John Quidor · 1829
Provenance
Ownership history
- 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.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, National Academy of Design, Annual Exhibition, 1829, cat. 8.
Literature
Published references
- Celia L. Ruder, "John Quidor and Washington Irving: The Outcast and the Hero" (MA Thesis, University of Wisconsin, 1966), 89-90.
- David M. Sokol, <em>John Quidor, Painter of American Legend</em>, 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.
- <em>Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1983), 7 (ill.).
- Christopher Kent Wilson, "John Quidor's <em>The Return of Rip Van Winkle</em> at the National Gallery of Art: The Interpretation of an American Myth," <em>American Art Journal</em> 19, no. 4 (Autumn 1987): 44, n. 13.
- Ross Barrett, <em>Rendering Violence: Riots, Strikes, and Upheaval in Nineteenth–Century American Art</em> (University of California Press, 2014), ill. cover, 40 (ill.).
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