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Three Trees: Italy

1871

Elihu Vedder

(American, 1836–1923)
Culture
America
Medium
oil on card on canvas
Measurements
Unframed: 22 x 12.7 cm (8 11/16 x 5 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. John C. Newington 1971.263
Public Domain
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Description

The American painter Elihu Vedder spent almost all of his career after 1866 in Rome, where this small landscape was painted. The inscription shows that it was given as a souvenir to Edmund A. Ward of New York, who had purchased a large painting from the artist.
A vertically oriented oil painting within a painted arched border depicts a landscape with visible brushstrokes, bisected vertically by a tall tree. In contrast, muted blue mountains sit under a sky with large white clouds. The lower half features a dark, rocky foreground with dense shrubs. Red text is inscribed in the top corners. Smaller trees flank the center, and a tiny white building sits on a distant mountain ridge.

Three Trees: Italy

1871

Elihu Vedder

(American, 1836–1923)
America

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