Nile Journey, No. 20
1890
Artist, American, 1836 - 1923
Artwork overview
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Medium
charcoal and crayon on blue-gray wove paper
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of the American Academy of Arts and Letters)
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Dimensions
sheet: 20.64 × 32.86 cm (8 1/8 × 12 15/16 in.)
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Accession
2015.19.868
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
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.
Inscriptions
lower right in graphite: Feb 16th / Nub"; lower right in charcoal: E. Vedder 1890; lower right in red pencil by unknown hand: 16
Wikidata ID
Q64558527