Elihu Vedder The Cup of Death (mk19) Painting ID:: 22294 new7/Elihu Vedder-947652.jpg
The Cup of Death (mk19) 1885
Oil on canvas,112.7 x 52.7 cm
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,Richmond(VA)
Elihu Vedder Soul in Bondage Painting ID:: 39096 new12/Elihu Vedder-344283.jpg
Soul in Bondage mk140
1891-92
Oil on canvas
96.1x60.9cm
Elihu Vedder The Questioner of the Sphinx Painting ID:: 39967 new12/Elihu Vedder-638567.jpg
The Questioner of the Sphinx mk155
1863
Oil on canvas
91.5x106cm
Elihu Vedder Prayer for Death in the Desert. Painting ID:: 61844 new21/Elihu Vedder-374454.gif
Prayer for Death in the Desert. Oil on Canvas. 14 x 49.5 in. ( 35.5 x 125.75 cm ). Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY. Gift of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Elihu Vedder The Questioner of the Sphinx Painting ID:: 61877 new21/Elihu Vedder-829288.gif
The Questioner of the Sphinx 1836. Oil on canvas. 36.25 x 42.25 in. (92 x 107cm). Museum of Fine Ats, Boston.
Elihu Vedder The Pleiades Painting ID:: 70545 new23/Elihu Vedder-497948.jpg
The Pleiades Oil on canvas; 24 1/8 x 37 5/8 in.
Elihu Vedder The Dead Alchemist Painting ID:: 71300 new23/Elihu Vedder-564648.jpg
The Dead Alchemist ca. 1868(1868)
Oil on panel
36.6 x 51 cm (14.41 x 20.08 in)
Elihu Vedder Prayer for Death in the Desert Painting ID:: 71467 new23/Elihu Vedder-378367.jpg
Prayer for Death in the Desert ca. 1867(1867)
Oil on canvas
35.2 x 126 cm (13.86 x 49.61 in)
American Symbolist Painter, 1836-1923
American painter, illustrator, sculptor and writer. He studied under Tompkins Harrison Matteson in Shelbourne, NY, and went to Paris in March 1856. After eight months in the studio of Fran?ois-Edouard Picot, he settled in Florence until the end of 1860. There he learnt drawing from Raffaello Bonaiuti, became interested in the Florentine Renaissance and attended the free Accademia Galli. A more significant artistic inspiration came from the Italian artists at the Caff? Michelangiolo: Telemaco Signorini, Vincenzo Cabianca (1827-1902) and especially Nino Costa (1827-1902). This group sought new and untraditional pictorial solutions for their compositions and plein-air landscapes and were particularly interested in the experiences of Gustave Courbet and the Barbizon painters. They became known as Macchiaioli for their use of splashes (macchia) of light and shadows and for their revolutionary (maquis) attitude to prevailing styles. Among Vedder's most notable Florentine landscapes are Mugnone Torrent near Fiesole (Detroit, MI, Inst. A.) and Le Balze, Volterra (Washington, DC, N. Mus. Amer. A.)