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Elihu Vedder
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.)
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Painting ID:: 22294
The Cup of Death (mk19)
1885
Oil on canvas,112.7 x 52.7 cm
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,Richmond(VA)
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Painting ID:: 32041
Memory
mk77
1870
Oil on canvas
20 5/16x14 3/4in
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Painting ID:: 39096
Soul in Bondage
mk140
1891-92
Oil on canvas
96.1x60.9cm
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Painting ID:: 39967
The Questioner of the Sphinx
mk155
1863
Oil on canvas
91.5x106cm
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Painting ID:: 61844
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.
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Elihu Vedder
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.)
. Related Artists to Elihu Vedder: | Henry Thomas Alken | Jacques Linard | James Stark | Miereveldt, Michiel Jansz. van | Francis Wheatley |
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