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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illustrator
painter
symbolist artist
birthName Elihu Vedder NERFINISHED
countryOfBirth United States of America
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
countryOfDeath Italy NERFINISHED
educatedAt Cooper Union NERFINISHED
National Academy of Design NERFINISHED
familyName Vedder NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork book illustration
symbolist painting
genre allegorical painting
book illustration
givenName Elihu NERFINISHED
hasWorkInCollection Brooklyn Museum NERFINISHED
Metropolitan Museum of Art NERFINISHED
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NERFINISHED
Smithsonian American Art Museum NERFINISHED
influencedBy Italian Renaissance art
classical mythology
mysticism
languageOfWorkOrName English
movement Symbolism NERFINISHED
notableFor illustrations for The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
mystical and allegorical imagery
notableWork Memory NERFINISHED
The Cup of Death NERFINISHED
The Cup of Love NERFINISHED
The Lair of the Sea Serpent NERFINISHED
The Lost Mind NERFINISHED
The Pleiades NERFINISHED
The Questioner of the Sphinx NERFINISHED
The Sphinx of the Seashore NERFINISHED
The Young Marsyas NERFINISHED
illustrations for Edward FitzGerald’s translation of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
occupation illustrator
painter
placeOfBirth New York City
placeOfDeath Rome NERFINISHED
residence Boston NERFINISHED
New York City
Rome
studiedIn Italy NERFINISHED
Paris NERFINISHED
workLocation Boston NERFINISHED
New York City
Rome NERFINISHED

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Thomas Jefferson Building
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