Born in New York City, Elihu Vedder was known as a painter of many esoteric subjects and was a leading symbolistic painter whose post-Civil War work evokes melancholy and tragedy. With the... Read full biography
Born in New York City, Elihu Vedder was known as a painter of many esoteric subjects and was a leading symbolistic painter whose post-Civil War work evokes melancholy and tragedy. With the publication of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, his illustrations set high standards for artist designed books. He... Read full biography
Born in New York City, Elihu Vedder was known as a painter of many esoteric subjects and was a leading symbolistic painter whose post-Civil War work evokes melancholy and tragedy. With the publication of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, his illustrations set high standards for artist designed books. He spent his youth in Schenectady, New York, studied art in New York City and Paris and then spent four years in Florence, Italy. Penniless, he returned to New York at the start of the Civil War and turned... Read full biography
Born in New York City, Elihu Vedder was known as a painter of many esoteric subjects and was a leading symbolistic painter whose post-Civil War work evokes melancholy and tragedy. With the publication of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, his illustrations set high standards for artist designed books. He spent his youth in Schenectady, New York, studied art in New York City and Paris and then spent four years in Florence, Italy. Penniless, he returned to New York at the start of the Civil War and turned to commercial art including sketches for Vanity Fair magazine and diagrams for instructing people in the use of dumbbells. At the end of the war, he left the United States and spent the remaining fifty-eight years of his life in Europe, primarily... Read full biography
Born in New York City, Elihu Vedder was known as a painter of many esoteric subjects and was a leading symbolistic painter whose post-Civil War work evokes melancholy and tragedy. With the publication of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, his illustrations set high standards for artist designed books. He spent his youth in Schenectady, New York, studied art in New York City and Paris and then spent four years in Florence, Italy. Penniless, he returned to New York at the start of the Civil War and turned to commercial art including sketches for Vanity Fair magazine and diagrams for instructing people in the use of dumbbells. At the end of the war, he left the United States and spent the remaining fifty-eight years of his life in Europe, primarily Rome and the Island of Capri. In 1884, he published his major work, over 50 illustrations for The Rubaiyat of... Read full biography
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Works on Paper from the Collection of the Sheldon Museum of Art
2016
Rudd, Brandon and Gregory Nosan, Editors; Wally Mason, Director's Mewssage
312 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Tales from the Easel: American Narrative Paintings from Southeastern Museums
2004
Eldredge and Eiland
0 pages (color)
American Beauty: Paintings from Detroit Institute of Arts, 1770-1920 (Exhibition catalog)
2002
Beal, Graham
128 pages (color)
Phoenix Art Museum Collection Highlights
2002
Komanecky, Michael K. (editor)
352 pages (color)
The Illustrator in America, 1860-2000 The Society of Illustrators
2001
Reed, Walt
452 pages (color)
110 Years of American Art:1830-1940 (Spanierman Galleries, LLC) (Exhibition catalog)
2001
Spanierman, Deborah (essay)
136 pages (color)
The Gilded Edge
2000
Wilner, Eli et al
0 pages (color)
Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum
1999
Editor, Smith College Museum
307 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Tile Club: And the Aesthetic Movement in America
1999
Pisano, Ronald; M Apicello
112 pages (color)
The Art Students League of New York A History (Teachers)
1999
Steiner, Raymond J
0 pages
Critical Issues in American Art A Book of Readings
1998
Calo, Mary Ann
328 pages
American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols)
1996
Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin
877 pages (color)
Art and the Higher Life Painting and Evolutionary Thought*
1996
Pyne, Kathleen
416 pages (color)
American Art History and Culture
1994
Craven, Wayne
687 pages (color)
American Paintings at the High Museum of Art
1994
High Museum of Art
216 pages (color)
Catalogue of The Collection: Museum, St. Petersburg Florida
1994
Lesko, Diane, (Ed)
366 pages (color)
The Rockefeller Collection American Art (at San Francisco Museums Fine Art) (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Simpson, Marc
315 pages (color)
Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art
1994
Sweetkind, Irene/W H Gerdts
372 pages (color)
Revisiting the White City American Art at the 1893 World's Fair (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Carr, Carolyn K
408 pages (color)
The Drawing Collection Stanford University Museum of Art
1993
Eitner, Lorenz (others)
418 pages (color)
American Drawings and Watercolors from the Kansas City Region (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Adams, Henry (others)
495 pages (color)
A Nation's Legacy 150 Years of American Art from Ohio Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Columbus Museum of Art
198 pages (color)
Italian Presence in American Art 1860-1920
1992
Jaffe, Irma B
265 pages (color)
Meadows of Memory Images of Time & Tradition in American Art & Culture
1992
Kammen, Michael
192 pages
The Lure of Italy American Artists and the Italian Experience (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Stebbins, Theodore E
470 pages (color)
American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art
1992
Strazdes, Diana
511 pages (color)
American Art A Catalogue/Los Angeles County
1991
Fort, Ilene/Michael Quick
510 pages (color)
Telling Tales 19th Century Narrative Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Pennsylvania Academy
100 pages (color)
The Lure of Paris: Nineteenth-Century American Painters and Their French Teachers
1991
Weinberg, H Barbara
295 pages (color)
American Originals Selections from Reynolda House Museum
1990
Eldredge, Charles C
135 pages (color)
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
American Painting
1990
Goddard, Donald; Robert Rosenblum (Intro)
319 pages (color)
Paris 1889 American Artists at the Universal Exposition (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Blaugrund, Annette
304 pages (color)
Faces and Figures in American Drawings (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Bloch, E Maurice
99 pages
American Pastels In the Metropolitan Museum of Art
1989
Bolger, Doreen (others)
247 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings
612 pages
The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989
Fresella-Lee, Nancy
222 pages (color)
An American Gallery (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Richard York Gallery
88 pages (color)
Italian Presence in American Art 1860-1920 (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Richard York Gallery
48 pages (color)
The American Canvas/Paintings from Collection Fine Art Museum, San Fran
1989
Simpson, Marc (Mills, Saville)
254 pages (color)
The American Collections Columbus Museum of Art
1988
Columbus Museum of Art
271 pages (color)
American Drawings and Watercolors From the Huntington Collections
1988
Danly, Susan
42 pages (color)
American Works on Paper II (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Spanierman Gallery
144 pages (color)
Adventure and Inspiration American Artists in Other Lands (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Ward, Meredith (essay)
172 pages (color)
Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago
1988
Wood, James N/Katherine Lee
168 pages (color)
American Drawings and Watercolors from the Wadsworth Atheneum
1987
Barter, Judith A; Eugene R. Gaddis (Intro)
94 pages (color)
A Proud Heritage Two Centuries of American Art
1987
Neff, Terry (editor)
300 pages (color)
An American Gallery (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Richard York Gallery
88 pages (color)
The Figure in American Art 1764-1983 Three Simultaneous Exhibitions: Kennedy Galleries (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Baur, John I.H.
72 pages (color)
The Edwin C Shaw Collection of American Impressionist & Tonalist Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Carr, Carolyn K
140 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Masterpieces of American Painting The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1986
Salinger, Margaretta
200 pages (color)
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Arts of the American Renaissance (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
123 pages (color)
Treasures from the National Museu of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Kloss, William/C C Eldredge
254 pages (color)
American Painting V 2, Catalog, Metropolitan Mus Artists born 1816-45
1985
Spasky, Natalie
671 pages
American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History
1984
Baigell, Mathew
420 pages
Twentieth Century American Drawin The Figure in Context (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Cummings, Paul
144 pages
Kennedy Galleries Profiles of American Artists
1984
Deak, Gloria-Gilda
288 pages
American Watercolors, Pastels, Collages The Brooklyn Museum
1984
Faunce, Sarah; Linda S. Ferber (Curators)
88 pages (color)
American Reflections: Paintings 1830-1940 Pomona and Scripps Colleges, Claremont, California (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Kopitske, Christine (Editor)
144 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present
1984
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
656 pages
The Illustrator in America, 1880-1980: A Century of Illustration
1984
Reed, Walt and Roger
355 pages (color)
The Quest for Unity American Art between World's Fairs 1876-1893 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Detroit Institute of the Arts
272 pages (color)
American Painting 1750-1900 from the Baltimore Museum of Art
1983
Johnston, Sona K
187 pages (color)
Un Nouveau Monde chefs-d'ouvre de la peinture americaine 1760-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Ministere de la Culture
378 pages (color)
Artists by Themselves Artist's Portrait's from the National Academy of Design (Exhibition catalog)
1983
National Academy of Design
175 pages (color)
A New World Masterpieces of American Painting 1760-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Stebbins, Theodore E; Pierre Rosenberg, H. Barbara Weinberg (essays)
351 pages (color)
The American Landscape Tradition A Study and Gallery of Paintings
1982
Czestochowski, Joseph S
184 pages (color)
American Landscape/Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society (3 vols)
1982
Koke, Richard J
1,243 pages
Golden Day / Silver Night Perceptions of Nature in American Art 1850-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Owens, Gwendolyn
111 pages (color)
Americans in Brittany and Normand 1868-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Sellin, David / J K Ballinger
229 pages (color)
Dictionary of 19th Century American Artists in Italy (1760-1940)
1982
Soria, Regina
332 pages
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff
213 pages
Profiles of American Artists Represented by Kennedy Galleries
1981
Deak, Gloria-Gilda
163 pages
The Art of Healing, Medicine and Science in American Art (Birmingham Museum of Art) (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Gerdts, William H
120 pages (color)
Painters of the Humble Truth American Still Life 1801-1939
1981
Gerdts, William H
292 pages (color)
A Kennedy Galleries Selection of American Art for Public and Private Collectors
1981
Kennedy Galleries
81 pages (color)
Art of America Selected Painting and Sculpture, 1770-1981
1981
Kennedy Galleries
64 pages (color)
Handbook of the Collections: Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art (Cornell University)
1981
Leavitt, Thomas W. (Editor)
106 pages
American Landscape Paintings: Selections From the High Museum of Art, Atlanta (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Morrin, Peter; Eric Zafran; Ann Schierman
32 pages
American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981
Newark Museum
431 pages (color)
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
Catalogue of American Painting
1981
San Diego Museum of Art
240 pages (color)
American Landscape Paintings From the High Museum (Catalogue for 1981 Traveling Exhibition) (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Vigtel, Gudmund
32 pages
An American Perspective: Nineteenth Century Art From the Collection of Jo Ann & Julian Ganz (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Wilmerding, John; Linda Ayres, Earl Powell
180 pages (color)
American Art from the Gallery's Collection October 4 - 25, 1980
1980
Galleries, Hirschl and Adler
112 pages (color)
Next to Nature: Landscape Paintings from the National Academy of Design
1980
Novak, Barbara and Annette Blaugrund
213 pages (color)
The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874 (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III
325 pages (color)
The Boston Tradition: American Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1980
Troyen, Carol
204 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works
1979
Brooklyn Museum
133 pages (color)
American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts
1979
Brown, Milton W (others)
616 pages (color)
American Drawing A Guide to Information Sources
1979
Doumato, Lamia
246 pages
American Drawings: Paul Magriel Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Eisler, Colin
38 pages
American Imagination and Symbolist Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Eldredge, Charles C
176 pages (color)
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
Perceptions and Evocations The Art of Elihu Vedder (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Soria, Regina (intro)
246 pages (color)
The Fine Arts in America
1979
Taylor, Joshua C
264 pages
The Eccentrics and Other American Visionary Painters
1978
Davidson, Abraham A
203 pages (color)
Academy The Academic Tradition in American Art
1978
Fink, Lois Marie
62 pages (color)
The New Muses Art in American Culture 1865-1920
1978
Morgan, H Wayne
232 pages (color)
Spencer Museum of Art Handbook of the Collection
1978
Spencer Museum of Art
168 pages (color)
Representative Works of Contemporary American Artists
1978
Trumble, Alfred
139 pages
American Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
1977
Brown, Milton W
631 pages (color)
Turn-of-the-Century America Paintings, Graphics, Photographs 1890-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Hills, Patricia
194 pages (color)
American Art at the Century
1977
Mayor, A. Hyatt; Mark Davis
0 pages
Nineteenth-Century Painters and Painting/A Dictionary
1977
Norman, Geraldine
240 pages (color)
American Painting from the Museum's Collection c1800-1930
1977
Rhode Island School of Design
241 pages
Recent Ideals of Americn Art
1977
Sheldon, George William
176 pages
Book of American Figure Painters (Art Experience, Late 19th Cen/ no. 11)
1977
Weinberg, H Barbara (intro)
240 pages
Heritage and Horizon American Painting 1776-1976 (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
80 pages (color)
Robert P Coggins Collection of American Art/Selections from (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Chambers, Bruce W
93 pages (color)
Bright Stars: American Painting and Sculpture Since1776
1976
Lipman, Jean/Helen M Franc
208 pages (color)
The Natural Paradise: Painting in America 1800-1950 The Museum of Modern Art, New York (Exhibition catalog)
1976
McShine, Kynaston
178 pages (color)
American Expatriate Painters of the Late Nineteenth Century (The Dayton Art Institute) (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Quick, Michael
158 pages (color)
American Art: An Exhibition from the Collection of Mr & Mrs John D Rockefeller 3rd (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Richardson, Edgar P
247 pages (color)
The Second Fifty Years:American Art 1826-1876
1976
Riggs, Timothy A
95 pages
American Master Drawings and Watercolors A History of Works on Paper
1976
Stebbins, Theodore E
464 pages (color)
American Marine Painting A Loan Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Virginia Museum
151 pages (color)
Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection
1975
Editor, Smithsonian
0 pages
Academy The Academic Tradition in American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Fink, Lois M/Joshua Taylor
272 pages
The Heritage of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Howat, John K/Natalie Spassky
237 pages (color)
A Century and Half of American Art, 1825-1975 (Exhibition catalog)
1975
National Academy of Design
262 pages
Seascape and the American Imagination (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Stein, Roger B
144 pages (color)
To See Is To Think: Looking at American Art
1975
Taylor, Joshua C
117 pages (color)
American Art in Upstate New York Drawings, Watercolors and Small Sculptures
1974
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy
80 pages
The Story of American Painting
1974
Davidson, Abraham A
168 pages (color)
American Drawings & Watercolors From the Munson Williams Proctor Institote (Exhibition catalog)
1974
E B Crocker Art Gallery
28 pages (color)
The Great American Nude A History in Art
1974
Gerdts, William H
224 pages (color)
American Narrative Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Hoopes, Donelson/Nancy Moure
192 pages (color)
A History of American Painting
1973
Bennett, Ian
240 pages (color)
Catalogue of Painting Collection Museum of Art
1973
Carnegie Institute
196 pages (color)
The Artist's America American Heritage History of
1973
Davidson, Marshall
416 pages (color)
The Chromolithographs of Louis Prang
1973
McClinton, Katharine M.
246 pages (color)
A History of American Art
1973
Mendelowitz, Daniel M
662 pages
Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set) (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Naylor, Maria
1,075 pages
American Drawings and Watercolors
1973
University of Kansas Museum
80 pages
To Look on Nature European and American Landscape (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Brown University
265 pages
The Hand and Spirit Religious Art in America 1700-1900 (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Dillenberger, Jane/J C Taylor
192 pages (color)
Biographical Sketches of American Artists
1972
Earle, Helen L
370 pages
The Arcadian Landscape 19th Century American Painters in Italy (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Eldredge, Charles (Intro); Barbara Novak
104 pages
Rhode Island School of Design Bulletin/American Watercolors & Drawings
1972
Ostraw, Stephen/Susan Carmalt
76 pages
The Vincent Price Treasury of American Art
1972
Price, Vincent
320 pages (color)
The De-definition of Art Action Art to Pop to Earthworks
1972
Rosenberg, Harold
256 pages
American Masters, 18th and 19th Centuries Kennedy Galleries (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Wunderlich, Rudolf G; Lawrence A. Fleischman
64 pages (color)
Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes)
1971
Bell, David
2,139 pages (color)
Louis Prang Color Lithographer: Giant of a Man
1971
Freeman, Larry
190 pages (color)
19th Century American Painting From the Collection of Henry Melville Fuller (Exhibition catalog)
1971
Gerdts, William H
92 pages
American Still Life Painting
1971
Gerdts, William; Russell Burke
264 pages (color)
American Masters 18th to 20th Centuries (Exhibition catalog)
1971
Kennedy Galleries
48 pages
19th Century America Hundredth Anniversary/Metropolitan Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Howat, John K (others)
220 pages (color)
The Art Makers of Nineteenth Century America
1970
Lynes, Russell
514 pages
Estimates in Art 16 Essays on American Painters/in 19th Century
1970
Mather, Frank Jewett Jr
337 pages
Great American Paintings from the Boston and Metropolitan Museums (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Maytham, Thomas N
160 pages (color)
Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc)
1970
Myers, Bernard S (editor)
511 pages (color)
Elihu Vedder American Visionary Artist in Rome
1970
Soria, Regina
484 pages
The Arts in America The Nineteenth Century
1969
Garrett, Wendell (others)
412 pages
American Painting of the Nineteenth Century
1969
Novak, Barbara
350 pages (color)
American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes)
1969
Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed)
600 pages (color)
The Way of Western Art 1776-1914
1969
Richardson, Edgar P
204 pages
The American Artist Abroad (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Kennedy Galleries
75 pages (color)
The American Tradition in the Arts
1968
McLanathan, Richard
492 pages
Traveler's Guide to American Art
1968
Norman, Jane & Theodore
436 pages
American Paintings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
1966
Los Angeles County Museum
143 pages (color)
Phoenix Art Museum Collection Paintings Drawings and Sculpture
1965
Harithas, James
225 pages (color)
American Drawings: Drawings of the Masters
1965
Hayes, Bartlett H Jr
141 pages (color)
The American Collection Representative Paintings/Phoenix Art Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1965
Museum of Northern Arizona
16 pages
Painting in America From 1502 to the Present
1965
Richardson, Edgar P
456 pages (color)
Maine and Its Role in American Art, 1740-1953
1963
Chase, Mary Ellen; Louisa Dresser, Nina Fletcher Little, et all
178 pages (color)
Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago/A Catalogue of the Collection
1961
Art Institute of Chicago
490 pages (color)
The Artist and the Book 1860-1960 In Western Europe and the United States (Exhibition catalog)
1961
Hofer, Philip
232 pages (color)
Encyclopedia of Painting
1955
Myers, Bernard
511 pages (color)
History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
1954
Clark, Eliot
296 pages
American Romantic Painting
1944
Richardson, Edgar P
286 pages
Romantic Painting in America (Exhibition catalog)
1943
Soby, James Thrall/D C Miller
144 pages
Survey of American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1940
Carnegie Institute
320 pages
The Story of American Painting The Evolution of Painting in America
1937
Caffin, Charles H
396 pages
The Main Currents in the Development of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1936
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
80 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One
1932
Hartmann, Sadekichi
363 pages
A Critical Introduction to American Painting
1931
Barker, Virgil
52 pages
The History and Ideals of American Art
1931
Neuhaus, Eugen
444 pages
The History of American Painting (supplemental chapters by Royal Cortissoz)