Three Trees: Italy (1871): Art, History and Details

Three Trees: Italy (1871) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Elihu Vedder (American, 1836–1923).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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.

Object facts

• Title: Three Trees: Italy
• Date: 1871
• Creator attribution: Elihu Vedder (American, 1836–1923)
• Culture: United States
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on card on canvas
• Dimensions: Unframed: 22 x 12.7 cm (8 11/16 x 5 in.)
• Collection: American - Painting
• Department: American Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1971.263

Collection credit

Gift of Mrs. John C. Newington

Further reading listed by the museum

• “Annual Report for 1971.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 59, no. 6 (June 1972): 147–179.

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