#elihuvedder

Plume élégante en contour, tatouage stylo dessiné à la main

Medusa, Elihu Vedder, March 18, 1867, Brooklyn Museum: American Art

Size: Sheet: 4 1/4 x 3 5/16 in. (10.8 x 8.4 cm) Medium: Graphite and ink on paper

Cypress and Poppies, Elihu Vedder, ca. 1880–90, American Paintings and Sculpture

Gift of Iola Stetson Haverstick, 1982 Size: 9 3/4 x 20 in. (24.8 x 50.8 cm) Medium: Oil on canvas

Plaque, Elihu Vedder, 19th century, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Decorative Arts, Textiles and Sculpture

triptych Size: 30 3/4 x 52 in. (78.11 x 132.08 cm) Medium: Bronze

Study for "Wedding Procession", Elihu Vedder, 1872–1875, Smithsonian: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Size: 34 × 12.3 cm (13 3/8 × 4 13/16 in.) Medium: Pastel crayon on paper

Aladdin's Lamp, Elihu Vedder, c. 1888, Harvard Art Museums: Drawings

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886 Size: 24.2 x 18.7 cm (9 1/2 x 7 3/8 in.) Medium: Gouache, gold leaf, and black ink on brown card

The Fates Gathering in the Stars, Elihu Vedder, 1887, Art Institute of Chicago: American Art

Elihu Vedder adapted this painting from an illustration he designed for an 1884 edition of Edward FitzGerald’s translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. An expatriate artist who lived in Rome for most of his life, Vedder was attracted to mysterious, visionary subject matter. The artist used the Rubaiyat to express his own philosophical beliefs regarding such metaphysical and spiritual questions as death and the existence of an afterlife, subjects that are at the core of Khayyam’s poetry. This image depicts the three Fates of Greek mythology—Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos—working the thread of life. Clotho spins the thread, Lachesis fixes its length, and Atropos cuts it at the appointed time of death. The Fates are symbolized by the spindle, distaff, and shears in the foreground and represent the poet’s belief that mankind has no control over destiny. Friends of American Art Collection Size: 113 × 82.6 cm (44 1/2 × 32 1/2 in.) Medium: Oil on canvas