{"id":5257,"date":"2009-05-25T03:09:56","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T02:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=5257"},"modified":"2009-05-25T03:09:56","modified_gmt":"2009-05-25T02:09:56","slug":"the-art-of-elihu-vedder-1836%e2%80%931923","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/05\/25\/the-art-of-elihu-vedder-1836%e2%80%931923\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of Elihu Vedder, 1836\u20131923"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artrenewal.org\/asp\/database\/image.asp?id=27649\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5258\" title=\"vedder1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/vedder1.jpg\" alt=\"vedder1.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/vedder1.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/vedder1-205x300.jpg 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 85vw, 340px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Last Man (1886\u20131891).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Vedder was one of the principal American Symbolists, possibly the leading one although there wasn&#8217;t the same degree of competition in the United States as there was in Europe. Last time I was casting around the web for his work he wasn&#8217;t so visible but that&#8217;s changed recently with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elihuvedder.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">a dedicated website<\/a>. Vedder&#8217;s 1884 edition of the <em>The Rub\u00e1iy\u00e1t of Omar Khayy\u00e1m<\/em> is highly-regarded and at least one of those drawings\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elihuvedder.org\/The-Cup-of-Death.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Cup of Death<\/em><\/a>\u2014was reworked as a painting. Compared to his Continental contemporaries he&#8217;s a particularly gloomy artist, with sombre subjects rendered in a sombre palette. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artrenewal.org\/asp\/database\/image.asp?id=27649\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Last Man<\/em><\/a> is typical as well as being curiously inexplicable; is the serpent there a Satanic presence? And why is there a dead (?) angel boy at the feet of the Last Man?<\/p>\n<p>The Smithsonian American Art Museum has a set of <a href=\"http:\/\/americanart.si.edu\/exhibitions\/online\/vedder\/\" target=\"_blank\">the <em>Rub\u00e1iy\u00e1t<\/em> illustrations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elihuvedder.org\/Soul-in-Bondage-1891-1892-large.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5259\" title=\"vedder2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/vedder2.jpg\" alt=\"vedder2.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/vedder2.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/vedder2-182x300.jpg 182w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 85vw, 340px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Soul in Bondage (1891\u20131892).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/12\/22\/angels-5-angels-of-death\/\" target=\"_self\">Angels 5: Angels of Death<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Last Man (1886\u20131891). Vedder was one of the principal American Symbolists, possibly the leading one although there wasn&#8217;t the same degree of competition in the United States as there was in Europe. Last time I was casting around the web for his work he wasn&#8217;t so visible but that&#8217;s changed recently with a dedicated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/05\/25\/the-art-of-elihu-vedder-1836%e2%80%931923\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The art of Elihu Vedder, 1836\u20131923&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,48,44,45],"tags":[438],"class_list":["post-5257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-illustrators","category-painting","category-symbolists","tag-elihu-vedder"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1mN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}