Some cool photo to canvas images:
The Cup of Death, Elihu Vedder
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“The Cup of Death”, 1885 (oil on canvas) is part of the collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond. Elihu Vedder (1836-1923) was a painter, illustrator of books, and a poet. He studied art in New York, France and Italy. He designed glassware and other items for Tiffany and did murals at the Library of Congress in Washington, D. C. His most famous output, however, was the 55 or 56 illustrations for Edward FitzGerald’s translation of Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat. Many influences may be detected in his artwork: symbolist, mystic. Pre-Raphaelite, Orientalism—and yet his style is his own. The source of the “The Cup of Death” is in the following quatrain from the Rubaiyat:
“So when the Angel of the darker Drink
At last shall find you by the river-brink,
And, offering his Cup, invite your Soul
Forth to your Lips to quaff--you shall not shrink.”
Vedder’s other version of this subject is darker in tone and is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The frame (which I inadvertently marred in the image) is attributed to Vedder and Charles Caryl Coleman; it’s a wood frame, carved and gilded.
For biographical information:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elihu_Vedder
www.artmagick.com/pictures/artist.aspx?artist=elihu-vedder
For online works:
118 paintings—http://www.elihuvedder.org/
36 images— www.artmagick.com/pictures/artist.aspx?artist=elihu-vedder
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Babel & Ramon (2007)
Image by scalleja
Acrylic on canvas · 130x130 cm · 2007
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