Elihu Vedder 1836-1923

Barry & Co., Paris, 1866
Private collection, Boston, Massachusetts
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Fleischman, Detroit, Michigan
Kennedy Galleries, New York
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob M. Kaplan, New York
Berry-Hill Galleries, New York, 1974
Acquired by the present owners from the above, 1974

Washington D.C., Smithsonian Institution; Minneapolis, Minnesota, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Paintings and Drawings by Elihu Vedder, 1966, no. 90 (as Standing Girl with a Musical Instrument) 
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 18th and 19th Century American Paintings from Private Collections, June-September 1972, no. 71 (as Young Woman with a Lute)
Washington D. C., National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution; New York, The Brooklyn Museum, Perceptions and Evocations: The Art of Elihu Vedder, October 1978-February 1979, no. 47, pp. 21, 77-78, 99, 101, 172-173, illustrated in color pp. 76, 173
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum; Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, An American Perspective: Nineteenth-Century Art from the Collection of Jo Ann and Julian Ganz, Jr., October 1981-September 1982, pp. 43, 59, 168-169, illustrated p. 169

Elihu Vedder, The Digressions of V. Written for His Own Fun and That of His Friends, New York, 1910, pp. 303-304
John P. Simoni, "Imagination, Symbolism Shown in Vedder Work, " The Wichita Eagle and Beacon, February 12, 1967, illustrated
Alfred Frankenstein, "Old Castles and Empty Tracks," San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle, April 30, 1967, p. 37
Regina Soria, Elihu Vedder: American Visionary Artist in Rome (1836-1923), Rutherford, New Jersey, 1970, pp. 50, 289, illustrated pl. 13
Meredith Ward, Adventure and Inspiration: American Artists in Other Lands, New York, 1988, p. 68 

Good condition: under UV: small area of retouch to upper right background, some very small retouches in lute, hair and one in dress, some retouches to edges to address frame abrasion, particularly in lower right corner.
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