Inside Out Library · Explore

The digressions of V. : written for his own fun and that of his friends (1910)

Vedder, Elihu, 1836-1923 · Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co. · leaf 170

An illustration from The digressions of V. : written for his own fun and that of his friends, 1910, leaf 170
d has served me as a date ever since — only I have for-gotten in what year it occurred. At Venice I absorbed colour like a sponge, for I started asa colourist, strange as it may seem to some. Yet I wonderedat a talented young French artist making a splendid copy ofCarpaccio, now one of my… … A LINK i39 picture — and yet not long after I was making studies in theCampo Santo. In any case, at that time so much Art burst into my unpreparedmind that the resulting confusion has lasted me for the rest ofmy life ; and if I give a confused impression of that period, I canassure the reader it…

Vedder, Elihu, 1836-1923 · Painters

Internet Archive · Wellesley College Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.

More pictures from The digressions of V. : written for his own fun and that of his friends

More like this