Delilah

1886

Elihu Vedder American, 1836-1923

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American, Level 2, West Wing

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Title Delilah

Artwork Date 1886

Artist Elihu Vedder

Life Dates 1836-1923

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on cradled wood panel

Dimensions Unframed: 17 3/4 × 27 1/2 inches (45.1 × 69.9 cm) Framed: 29 3/4 × 37 5/8 × 1 7/8 inches (75.6 × 95.6 × 4.8 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department American Art before 1950

Credit Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Chazan, Arthur and Joyce Hurvitz, and Irwin and Gloria Sparr in honor of Mr. amd Mrs. Richard A. Manoogian

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 1994.124

Markings

Signed Signed and dated, lower right: Elihu Vedder | Rome 1876

Inscriptions Inscribed, lower left corner of painting, the artist's cypher: V; and hte date: 1886 Inscribed, lower left corner of frame, on a gold coin, the artists cypher: V; and the date: 1886 Inscribed, upper center of frame, in Hebrew letters, Samson An unsigned entry: Inscribed, lower right: Elihu Vedder | Rome 1876 (This needs to be verified. I don't see it, Ken Myers, Curator of American Art, July 21, 2023)

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1994-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

“Art Notes.” Critic: A Weekly Review of Literature and the Arts 10, 7 (1887): p. 210.

Catalogue of Vedder’s Phototypes. Exh. cat. New York, 1887, nos. 9-10.

World’s Columbian Exposition. Exh. cat. Chicago, 1893, nos. 1035-1036.

Goodyear, William H. Renaissance and Modern Art. New York, 1894, p. 303.

Clement, Clara Erskine. “Later Religious Painting in America.” New England Magazine 12, 2 (April 1895): pp. 138-139.

Lusk, Lewis. “The Later Work of Elihu Vedder.” Art Journal 55 (1903): pp. 142-146.

Vedder, Elihu. The Digressions of V. 2 Vols. Boston, 1910, p. 485.

Soria, Regina. Elihu Vedder: American Visionary Artist in Rome (1836-1923). Rutherford, NJ, 1970, pp. 331-332, nos. 431-432.

American Expatriate Painters of the Late Nineteenth Century. Exh. cat., Dayton Art Institute. Dayton, OH, 1976, pp. 140-141, nos. 53-54.

Perceptions and Evocations: The Art of Elihu Vedder. Exh. cat., National Collection of Fine Arts. Washington, D.C., 1979, pp. 150-151, nos. 185-186.

All Walks of Life: Paintings of the Figure from the National Academy of Design. Exh. cat., National Academy of Design. New York, 1979, p. 83.

Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Paintings. Exh. cat., Jordan-Volpe Gallery. 1989, pp. 10-13.

Revisiting the White City: American Art at the 1893 World’s Fair. Exh. cat., National Museum of American Art. Washington, D.C., 1993, p. 337, nos. 1006-1007.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Elihu Vedder, Delilah, 1886, oil on cradled wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Chazan, Arthur and Joyce Hurvitz, and Irwin and Gloria Sparr, 1994.124.