Study for "The Eclipse of the Sun by the Moon"
1892
Artist, American, 1836 - 1923
Elihu Vedder
Attributed to
Artwork overview
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Medium
charcoal and chalk on green 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 (irregular): 31.75 × 48.26 cm (12 1/2 × 19 in.)
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Accession Number
2014.136.197
More About this Artwork
Article: Picturing the Eclipse
Experience the drama of the eclipse and other views of the cosmos through images in our collection.
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
1980
The Human Form: Contemporary American Figure Drawing and the Academic Tradition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1980, no. 14
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. 508.
Inscriptions
lower right in charcoal: Vedder; lower center verso in graphite: Eclipse of the Sun by the Moon
Wikidata ID
Q64558534