File:The-Mermaid.jpg
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[edit]Howard Pyle: The Mermaid ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q525713 |
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Title |
The Mermaid |
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Object type |
painting object_type QS:P31,Q3305213 |
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Date |
1910 date QS:P571,+1910-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium |
oil on canvas medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259 |
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Dimensions |
height: 57.8 in (147 cm); width: 40.1 in (101.9 cm) dimensions QS:P2048,57.875U218593 dimensions QS:P2049,40.125U218593 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q1183941 |
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Credit line |
1940: given to Delaware Art Museum by the children of Howard Pyle in memory of their mother, Anne Poole Pyle |
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Notes |
English: Beneath the deepening sky and rising moon, the juncture of opposing forces anchors this work: land vs. water—human vs. mermaid—strong vs. weak. The mythic mermaid rises from the briny foam and rescues a shipwrecked man who was descending into the deep. When Howard Pyle set off on his extended European travels in November 1910, The Mermaid was still on the easel in his studio, unfinished. Despite the later addition of fish and a crab by Pyle's student Frank Schoonover, what we see today is incomplete, and Pyle's intentions for this work remain unknown. |
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Source/Photographer | Delaware Art Museum |
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- Paintings by Howard Pyle
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- Paintings of mermaids
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