Description: Perceptions and Evocations Art of Elihu Vedder HC DJ 1979 Symbolist Painter Good pre-owned condition. Pages are crisp and clean with no markings noticed. Light wear on cover, corners and edges. Some wear on dust jacket, but covered with a Brodart jacket cover. Please see all photos. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., October 13, 1978-February 4, 1979 and the Brooklyn Museum, New York, April 28-July 9, 1979. Elihu Vedder is best known for his allegorical and symbolic works and for his fresh and sparkling images of the Italian landscape. Born in New York, he spent most of his working life in Europe. As a young aspiring artist he left America in 1856 for Paris and Italy, where he copied works by great artists of the past--for example Domenichino--and made intimate, freely drawn sketches of landscape and genre scenes such as Students in the Latin Quarter, Paris. After his return to New York in 1861, Vedder produced some of his most haunting and famous paintings. In a highly realistic style he painted strange combinations of objects that often symbolize ideas and evoke a mood of sadness and mystery. There is a dreamlike quality to some of these images, and many of his contemporaries found them baffling. Vedder settled permanently in Rome in 1866, painting the Italian countryside and returning frequently to the United States to work on commissions for mosaics and murals. His symbolic and allegorical paintings of monumental figures were suited to large, public murals, which were popular in late nineteenth-century America. He created murals for the Bowdoin College art gallery in 1894 and for the Library of Congress in 1896. Many regard Vedder's illustrations for the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam as his finest work.
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Book Title: Perceptions and Evocations : the Art of Elihu Vedder
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press
Item Length: 8.5 in
Vintage: Yes
Publication Year: 1979
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Item Height: 10.5 in
Author: Richard Murray, Joshua C. Taylor, Jane Dillenberger
Features: Dust Jacket, Illustrated
Genre: Art & Culture
Topic: Art History, Art Nouveau, Landscape Art, Speculative Art, Mural Art, Symbolist Painting
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Width: 1 in
Number of Pages: 246
