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| Keywords: The-Mermaid.jpg Artwork Creator Howard Pyle title The Mermaid 1910 Oil on canvas in 57 875 40 125 Institution Delaware Art Museum object history credit line provenanceEvent gift langswitch den Kindern Howard Pyles in Gedenken an ihre Mutter the children of Howard Pyle in memory of their mother Anne Poole Pyle 1940 Delaware Art Museum en 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 accession number http //www delart org/collections/pyle_illus/gallery4_mermaid html Delaware Art Museum PD-old-100-1923 1911 Howard Pyle Paintings in Delaware Art Museum Mermaids in art Crabs in art moon rising in art Seas in art Waves in art 1910 oil on canvas paintings in the United States People with the Moon in art Humans with fictional creatures People with water in art Paintings of nude females in the sea | ||||
