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
Date
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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Department
Painting and Sculpture
Data Source
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
Link to Original Record
Record ID
saam_1994.120