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The Fates Gathering in the Stars

Elihu Vedder · 1887

Provenance

Ownership history

Henry Melville Whitney, Brookline, MA, 1887; American Art Association, New York, 1917; George H. Ainslie, New York, 1917. Montross Gallery, New York, by 1919; sold to the Friends of American Art, Art Institute of Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1919.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

Boston, Doll and Richards Gallery, Mar. 18 – ?, 1887.
New York, H. Wunderlich & Co., Apr. 1887.
Paris, France, Palais du Champ de Mars, Galerie des Beaux–Arts, Exposition Universelle Internationale, May 5–Oct. 31, 1889, no. 305 (Les parques se rassemblant dans les etoiles).
New York, American Art Gallery, Valuable American and Foreign Oil Paintings by Distinguished Masters of Modern Schools, Mar. 12–16, 1917, no. 73 as The Three Fates.
Art Institute of Chicago, Special Exhibition of the Works in the Friends of American Art Collection, May 15–June 15, 1919.
San Francisco, The California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Exhibition of Paintings, Collection of the Friends of American Art, Lent by the Art Institute of Chicago, June 26–July 26, 1926, no. 25.
Stockholm, Sweden, Kungl Akademien för de Fria Konsterna, Utställning av Amerikansk Konst i Stockholm [Exhibition of American Art in Stockholm], Mar. 15–Apr. 7, 1930, cat. 105, as Ödesgudinnorna insamla stjärnorna; Copenhagen, Denmark, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Udstilling af Amerikanst Konst I København [Exhibition of American Art in Copenhagen], May 3–22, 1930; Munich, Germany, Ausstellung Americanischer Kunst [Exhibition of American Art], June–July, 1930 (organized by the American Scandinavian Foundation).
Art Institute of Chicago, A Survey of American Art, July 21–Oct. 9, 1932.
Washington, DC, Smithsonian Institution, National Collection of Fine Arts, Oct. 13–Feb. 4, 1979; New York, Brooklyn Museum, Perceptions and Evocations: the Art of Elihu Vedder, no. 225 Apr. 28, 1979–July 9, 1979 (exhibited in Brooklyn only).
Norfolk, Va., Chrysler Museum, Paris 1889: American Artists at the Universal Exposition, Sept. 29–Dec. 17, 1989, Annette Blaugrund, et al, no. 305, pp. 218–220, ill. p. 220; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art; exhibition extended to the New–York Historical Society, Sept. 5–Nov. 15, 1990.

Literature

Published references

Rubaiyat of OMar. Khayyam—The Astronomer Poet of Persia. Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald with an accompaniment of Drawings by Elihu Vedder (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1884).
“Vedder’s Drawings for OMar. Khayyam’s Rubaiyat,” Atlantic Monthly, 40 (January 1885), 111–116.
“Art Notes: April Brings Another Special Exhibition by Mr. Elihu Vedder at the Wunderlich Gallery,” Art Review 1 (March 1887), 116–117.
William Howe Downes, “Elihu Vedder’s Pictures,” Atlantic Monthly 59 (June 1887), 842–846.
Elihu Vedder, The Digressions of V (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910).
“Notes,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 13 (January 1919), 28.
“Exhibitions,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 13 (May 1919), 28.
“Report of the Trustees,” The Art Institute of Chicago Forty–First Annual Report (1919), 16.
“Donors and Lenders,” The Art Institute of Chicago Forty–First Annual Report (1919).
Kungl Akademien för de Fria Konsterna, Utställning av Amerikansk Konst i Stockholm [Exhibition of American Art in Stockholm, exh. cat. (Kungl Akademien för de fria Konsterna, 1930), 30, cat. 105, as Ödesgudinnorna insamla stjärnorna.
Carter Ratcliff, “The Gender of Mystery: Elihu Vedder,” Art in America, 67 (November 1979), 84–92.
Regina Soria, Elihu Vedder, American Visionary Artists in Rome (1836–1923) (Rutherford, N. J.: Fairleigh Dickinson Press, 1970).

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