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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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Keywords and Quick Facts for Elihu Vedder


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art Method
  • Bas Relief, Wall Mounted Sculpture
  • Direct Carver, Hand Carving
  • Easel Painting
  • Illustration, Illustrator
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
  • Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art MediaArt StyleArt Subject
  • Allegory, Metaphor, Parable
  • Animals, Mammals
  • Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
  • Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
  • Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
  • History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
  • Human Head Images, Portrait Heads, Faces
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
  • Mountain Views, Mountainscapes
  • Narrative, Story Telling
  • New York City
  • Nude Figure, Nudity
  • Outer Space, Science Fiction
  • Portraits, Portraiture
  • Religion, Mysticism, Spirituality
  • Seascapes, Seasides
  • Still Life
  • Townscape, Village Scenes
  • Urban Landscape, Cityscape
  • Wildlife, Wild Animal
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Europe
  • Expatriate from USA or Canada
  • Italy Before World War I
  • Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
Art Association
  • Boston Art Club
  • Brooklyn Art Association
  • National Academy of Design, Elected Member
  • Society of American Artists, New York
  • Society of Illustrators-
  • Tile Club, New York
Art School
  • Art Students League of New York, Teacher
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Art Collection
  • Jo Ann & Julian Ganz, Jr. Collection
Added Description
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
  • Figure Specialty
  • Illustration Specialty
  • Landscape Specialty
  • Mural Specialty
  • Narrative Specialty
  • Pastel Specialty
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
  • Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1889
  • Louisiana Purchase Expo, St. Louis World's Fair 1904
  • World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1892-1893
Exhibition of Art Association
  • Boston Art Club-
  • Brooklyn Art Association-
  • National Academy of Design, New York
  • Society of Illustrators
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York

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