Matthew Day Jackson
LIFE, August 31, 1959, 2021
Formica, needlepoint, epoxy, acrylic paint, urethane plastic, lead, wood, stainless steel frame
186.1 x 139.1 x 5.1 cm | 73 1/4 x 54 3/4 x 2 in
Further images
Matthew Day Jackson's explores the continued influence of America's past on its current political and social climate through his series of LIFE Magazine covers. This cover shows Rip Van Winkel, from the short story published in 1819 by Washington Irving. Van Winkel falls asleep after drinking with mysterious Dutch colonists in the Catskill Mountains of New York, to awake 20 years later. When he arises, his beard has grown long and he finds that the world is changed; he has slept through the American Revolution.
Matthew Day Jackson's explores the continued influence of America's past on its current political and social climate through his series of LIFE Magazine covers. This cover shows Rip Van Winkel, from the short story published in 1819 by Washington Irving. Van Winkel falls asleep after drinking with mysterious Dutch colonists in the Catskill Mountains of New York, to awake 20 years later. When he arises, his beard has grown long and he finds that the world is changed; he has slept through the American Revolution.