Nile Journey, No. 20, 1890

Not on View

Medium

charcoal and crayon on blue-gray wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 20.64 × 32.86 cm (8 1/8 × 12 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of the American Academy of Arts and Letters)

Accession Number

2015.19.868

Artists / Makers

Elihu Vedder (artist) American, 1836 - 1923

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in graphite: Feb 16th / Nub"; lower right in charcoal: E. Vedder 1890; lower right in red pencil by unknown hand: 16

Provenance

the artist, Rome, Italy; Anita Herriman Vedder (daughter of the artist), Rome, Italy, 1923; American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, 1954; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1955; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

American Academy of Arts and Letters
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Vedder, Anita Herriman
Vedder, Elihu

Exhibition History

1963: Progress of An American Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1963

2011: Elihu Vedder: Voyage On the Nile, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York, 2011-2012, p. 104, no. 68, repro

Bibliography

1970: Soria, Regina. Elihu Vedder: American Visionary Artist in Rome (1836-1923). Rutherford, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1970, no. D400.

1983: Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 80, no. 506.