Rip Van Winkle - A Friend To All (Original)

Artist: Gwen Green
Medium: Watercolour on Board
Size: 11" x 14" (280mm x 355mm)
Date: 1980
Code: GreenGRVW10

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 was a friend to dogs and children alike.

Rip Van Winkle, a short story by American author Washington Irving, first published in 1819, follows a Dutch-American villager in colonial America who is nagged by his wife, 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.