Rip Van Winkle - Rip's Best Friend (Original)

Artist: Gwen Green
Medium: Watercolour on Board
Size: 9" x 8" (235mm x 215mm)
Date: 1980
Code: GreenGRVW07

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 relaxes with his pooch, a dog called Wolf.

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.