Rip Van Winkle (1910 film) Catskill Mountains hundreds of years before, and had never been heard of since. The gnomes give Rip some magic schnapps to drink, and under its influence he goes to sleep for 20 years. When he awakes, he is an old man and in ragged clothes. His dog is dead, and his rifle has rusted away. He makes his way as best he can back to the village, and his own home. But there no one knows him. He finds his wife married to another man, his daughter grown to womanhood, and most of his old friends dead and gone. Rip,
Dismissal of School on an October Afternoon memorial exhibit. In 1992, this painting was featured in the "An Exhibit of American Painting, 1815–1865: from the M. and M. Karolik Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston." "Dismissal from School on an October Afternoon" was not Inman's only work influenced by Irving. Inman was particularly interested in Rip van Winkle. In 1823, "Rip Van Winkle Awakening from His Long Sleep" was painted. Several years later Inman painted his "James Henry Hackett as Rip Van Winkle". There is also an undated sketch titled "Rip Van Winkle". James Cozzens commissioned the painting. Ownership soon passed to William P. Jones.