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Howard Pyle: The Mermaid   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Howard Pyle  (1853–1911)  wikidata:Q525713 s:en:Author:Howard Pyle q:en:Howard Pyle
 
Howard Pyle
Alternative names
H. Pyle
Description American writer, illustrator, children's writer, university teacher and painter
Date of birth/death 5 March 1853 Edit this at Wikidata 9 November 1911 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Wilmington Florence
Work location
Wilmington (1880–1910); New York City (1876–1880) Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q525713
Title
The Mermaid
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Date 1910
date QS:P571,+1910-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 57.8 in (147 cm); width: 40.1 in (101.9 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,57.875U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,40.125U218593
institution QS:P195,Q1183941
Credit line 1940: given to Delaware Art Museum by the children of Howard Pyle in memory of their mother, Anne Poole Pyle
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.
Source/Photographer Delaware Art Museum

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The Mermaid, by Howard Pyle (1910)

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