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Painter:
Vedder, Elihu 1836-1923  Search this
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
Detroit Institute of Arts 5200 Woodward Avenue Detroit Michigan 48202 Accession Number: 57.235
Date:
1875-1876
Notes:
"American paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts; volume 2: Works by artists born 1816-1847," New York : Hudson Hills Press, 1997, no. 83.
"Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts; a checklist of the paintings acquired before June 1965," Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1965.
"Perceptions and Evocations: The Art of Elihu Vedder," Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press (National Collection of Fine Arts), 1978, no. 153.
"Survey of American Paintings," Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Institute, Department of Fine Arts, 1940, no. 119.
Summary:
Sibyl walks through a landscape beside small brush fires. She holds scrolls under her right arm and a walking stick in her left hand. She wears drapery, sandals and jewelry.
Topic:
Mythology--Classical--Sibyl  Search this
Landscape--Weather--Wind  Search this
Disaster--Fire  Search this
Object--Written Matter--Scroll  Search this
Control number:
IAP 24150452
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_273284