Object Details
- Artist
- John Quidor, born Tappan, NY 1801-died Jersey City, NJ 1881
- Gallery Label
- Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" inspired Quidor to paint the climactic moment from this famous tale. Ichabod Crane is a prickly and stuck-up schoolmaster and a bumbling suitor for the lovely Katrina, who uses him to make her beau jealous. The pompous twit is no match for the clever locals, and he disappears, chased away by the headless horseman through a darkened wood. Irving's educated nitwit, strapping local boy and flirtatious beauty would reappear as folk characters throughout American literature in the nineteenth century.Exhibition Label, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2006
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible in part by the Catherine Walden Myer Endowment, the Julia D. Strong Endowment, and the Director's Discretionary Fund
- 1858
- Object number
- 1994.120
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 26 7/8 x 33 7/8 in. (68.3 x 86.1 cm.)
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- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Landscape\forest
- Landscape\time\evening
- Literature\Irving\Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- Literature\character\Icahabod Crane
- Literature\character\Headless Horseman
- Equestrian
- Record ID
- saam_1994.120
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk798aae900-38b2-4640-9763-07602df0a1f6
