Study for "Astronomy"

1892

Elihu Vedder

Artist, American, 1836 - 1923

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Artwork overview

Associated Artworks

Study of a Female Nude

Elihu Vedder

1892

Artwork history & notes

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

Exhibition History

1978

  • Perceptions and Evocations: The Art of Elihu Vedder, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1978-1979, pp. 197, 199, no. 249, repro

Bibliography

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. 81, no. 509.

Inscriptions

lower right in charcoal: Vedder

Wikidata ID

Q64558464

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