Headless+Horseman+Pursuing+Ichabod+Crane,+The

Date: 1858
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1994/1994.120_1a.jpg?itok=zeMfSBF1 width="360" height="285" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/headless-horseman-pursuing-ichabod-crane-34285"]] || Title: **The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane**

Artist: **John Quidor** Born: Tappan, New York 1801 Died: Jersey City, New Jersey 1881

Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 26 7/8 x 33 7/8 in. (68.3 x 86.1 cm.) 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

Accession: 1994.120 || 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.
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Quidor and Rip Van Winkle
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[|About the Artist] SAAM Collections Page The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. by Washington Irving from Project Gutenberg
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