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Gubbio
Artist
Elihu Vedder
(American, 1836 - 1923)
Date1867
MediumOil on board
DimensionsOverall: 8 7/8 x 11 1/2 in. (22.5 x 29.2 cm), frame: 12 1/8 x 14 5/8 x 1 in. (30.8 x 37.1 x 2.5 cm)
Credit LineBequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer
Object number2019.117
Collections
ClassificationsPainting
Object NamePainting
DepartmentPermanent Collection
CultureNorth American
NationalityAmerican
On View
Not on viewCentury
- Nineteenth
Inscribedbottom right: Aug 5 ‘67
Exhibition HistoryAn American Place: Selections from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, January 29–May 1, 2022
An Intimate Eye: Selections from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, Palmer Museum of Art, January 18–May 15, 2005
Perceptions and Evocations: The Art of Elihu Vedder, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, October 13, 1978–February 4, 1979; Brooklyn Museum, New York, April 28–July 9, 1979ProvenanceThe artist
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Fleischman, Detroit
Kennedy Galleries, New York
Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, acquired in 1986 from Kennedy Galleries
Palmer Museum of Art, bequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer, 2019Published ReferencesJoyce Henri Robinson, ed., A Gift From the Heart: American Art from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013), 13 (fig. 4), 207 (ill., color).
An Intimate Eye (University Park, PA: Palmer Museum of Art, 2005), 14 (no. 70).
Regina Soria, Elihu Vedder: American Visionary Artist in Rome (1836–1923) (Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1970), 293 (no. 117). [possibly Umbrian Landscape with Trees in Foreground]