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Elihu Vedder

Elihu Vedder (1836 - 1923) was active/lived in New York / Italy.  Elihu Vedder is known for Allegory, landscape, figure and fantasy painting.

Born in New York City, Elihu Vedder was known as a painter of many esoteric subjects and was a leading symbolistic painter whose post-Civil War work evokes melancholy and tragedy. With the publication of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, his illustrations set high standards for artist designed books.

He spent his youth in Schenectady, New York, studied art in New York City and Paris and then spent four years in Florence, Italy. Penniless, he returned to New York at the start of the Civil War and turned to commercial art including sketches for Vanity Fair magazine and diagrams for instructing people in the use of dumbbells. At the end of the war, he left the United States and spent the remaining fifty-eight years of his life in Europe, primarily Rome and the Island of Capri.

In 1884, he published his major work, over 50 illustrations for The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.   He created designs for the entire book and included intriguing draw   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5377 characters.]  Artist bio

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Off Pier Head, Viareggio, Italy , 1881

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YOUNG MARSYAS (MARSYAS ENCHANTING THE HARES) , 1878

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The Soul of the Sunflower: A Fireback , 1882

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The Greek Actor's Daughter

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THE HEART OF THE ROSE , 1891-2

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Near Perugia , 1870

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