Rip Van Winkle - Rip Wakes Up (Original)

Artist: Gwen Green
Medium: Watercolour on Board
Size: 11" x 8" (280mm x 200mm)
Date: 1980
Code: GreenGRVW04

This is the unique original Watercolour painting by Gwen Green.

Beautifully painted watercolour representations of the story of Rip Van Winkle by Gwen Green.

Rip wakes up after 20 years having aged into an old man.

Rip Van Winkle, a short story by American author Washington Irving, first published in 1819, follows a Dutch-American villager in colonial America who meets some mysterious dwarves, imbibes their strong liquor and falls into a deep sleep in the Catskill Mountains. He awakes 20 years later to a very changed world, having missed the American Revolution.

• Artist Biography
  Gwen Green
  Little is known about the talented artist and illustrator Gwen Green other than she worked with Odhams Press and illustrated Bible stories books for Leonard Matthews.