COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
Record
AMICA ID:
AIC_.1919.1
AMICA Library Year:
1998
Object Type:
Paintings
Creator Name:
Vedder, Elihu
Creator Nationality:
North American; American
Creator Dates/Places:
American; 1836-1923 North and Central America,North America,United Sta
Creator Name-CRT:
Elihu Vedder
Title:
The Fates Gathering in the Stars
Title Type:
preferred
View:
full view
Creation Date:
1887
Creation Start Date:
1887
Creation End Date:
1887
Materials and Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Creation Place:
North and Central America,North America,United States
Dimensions:
unframed:113 x 82.6 cm (44 1/2 x 32 1/2 in.)framed: 131.5 x 100.3 cm (51 3/4 x 39 1/2 in.)
AMICA Contributor:
The Art Institute of Chicago
Owner Location:
Chicago, Illinois, USA
ID Number:
1919.1
Credit Line:
The Art Institute of Chicago, Friends of American Art Collection
Inscriptions:
Signed, lower right: "Elihu Vedder / Rome 1887"
Context:
Elihu Vedder adapted this painting from an illustration he designed for an 1884 edition of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. An expatriate artist who lived in Rome for most of his life, Vedder was attracted to mysterious, visionary subject matter. In this work, Vedder has interpreted Khayyam's poem in an elusive manner. The three Fates, symbolized by the spindle, distaff, and shears in the foreground, represent the author's underlying theme of the uncertainty of life. Clotho spins the thread of life, Lachesis fixes its length, and Atropos cuts it at the appointed time of death.
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AIC_.E12801.TIF
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