In Memoriam, 1879

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 112.08 × 50.8 cm (44 1/8 × 20 in.)

framed: 127 × 66.04 × 10.16 cm (50 × 26 × 4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Anna E. Clark Fund)

Accession Number

2015.19.87

Artists / Makers

Elihu Vedder (painter) American, 1836 - 1923

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Inscription

lower left: Elihu Vedder / Rome 1879

Provenance

(Williams and Everett's Gallery, Boston);[1] purchased April 1880 by J.G. Blake, Boston.[2] acquired 1959 by (Vose Galleries of Boston, Inc); purchased April 1959 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] The painting was included in an exhibition of Vedder's work held at the Boston gallery; all the works for sale.

[2] According to Regina Soria, Elihu Vedder: American Visionary Artist in Rome (1836-1923), Cranbury, New Jersey, 1970: 144, 321 no. 337.

Associated Names

Blake, J.G.
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Vose Galleries
Williams and Everett's Gallery

Exhibition History

1880: Pictures, Sketches of Pictures, and Studies by Elihu Vedder, Williams and Everett's Gallery, Boston, 26 March - 8 April 1880, no. 4.

1963: Progress of an American Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 25 October - 29 December 1963, unpublished checklist.

1976: The American Genius: W.W. Corcoran, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 24 January - 4 April 1976, unnumbered catalogue.

1978: Perceptions and Evocations: The Art of Elihu Vedder, National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington; Brooklyn Museum, 13 October 1978 - 9 July 1979, no. 288.

1992: The Lure of Italy: American Artists and The Italian Experience 1760-1914, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Cleveland Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 16 September 1992 - 8 August 1993, no. 96, repro.

Bibliography

1966: Phillips, Dorothy W. A Catalogue of the Collection of American Paintings in The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Vol. 1: Painters born before 1850. Washington, 1966: 139, repro.

1970: Soria, Regina. Elihu Vedder: American Visionary Artist in Rome (1836-1923). Rutherford, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1970, p. 144.

1979: Soria, Regina, ed. Perceptions and Evocations: The Art of Elihu Vedder. Washington, D.C., 1979: 189, no. 238.

1980: Boime, Albert. Thomas Couture and the Eclectic Vision. New Haven, 1980: 603.

2000: Cash, Sarah, with Terrie Sultan. American Treasures of The Corcoran Gallery of Art. New York, 2000: 108, repro.

2004: Elderedge, Charles C. Tales from the Easel: American Narrative Paintings from Southeastern Museums circa 1800-1950. Athens, GA, 2004: 59, fig. 33.

2011: Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 322, repro.