Elihu Vedder

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Elihu Vedder was a 19th-century American symbolist painter and illustrator best known for his mystical, allegorical works and his influential illustrations for Edward FitzGerald’s translation of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.

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instanceOf human
illustrator
painter
symbolist artist
birthName Elihu Vedder self-link
countryOfBirth United States of America
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
countryOfDeath Italy
educatedAt Cooper Union
National Academy of Design
familyName Vedder
fieldOfWork book illustration
symbolist painting
genre allegorical painting
book illustration
givenName Elihu
hasWorkInCollection Brooklyn Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Smithsonian American Art Museum
influencedBy Italian Renaissance art
classical mythology
mysticism
languageOfWorkOrName English
movement Symbolism
notableFor illustrations for The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
mystical and allegorical imagery
notableWork Memory
The Cup of Death
The Cup of Love
The Lair of the Sea Serpent
The Lost Mind
Pleiades
surface form: The Pleiades

The Questioner of the Sphinx
The Questioner of the Sphinx
surface form: The Sphinx of the Seashore

The Young Marsyas
illustrations for Edward FitzGerald’s translation of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
occupation illustrator
painter
placeOfBirth New York City
placeOfDeath Rome
residence Boston, Massachusetts
surface form: Boston

New York City
Rome
studiedIn Italy
Paris
workLocation Boston, Massachusetts
surface form: Boston

New York City
Rome

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Elihu Vedder birthName Elihu Vedder self-link