Original Oil on Canvas, 36" x 48" x 2"
Inspired from Washington Irving's Classic Tale, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
"Headless Hessian"
This piece is my own take on the ever-inspiring, classic tale by Washington Irving, "The Headless Horseman". In this version, Lady Van Tassel, or if thou chooseth another femme fatale of your liking, is taken instead of Lord Brom or any of the other prominent characters. Ichabod Crane and the lovely lass took an evening stroll through the woods of Sleepy Hollow, when the Headless Hessian came for his taking. Ichabod in the lead runs for his life, glancing back in sheer terror at the lovely Katrina's decapitated head tossing through the air completely abandoned of her fallen body lying on the ground as the Hessian gallops after him with haste upon his trusty beast of a steed. It is said that whatever happened to Ichabod is a mystery... did he escape and find another life or did he, too, meet death by the horseman's sweeping blade of fury?