1914
pastel
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Capri is a 1914 pastel by Elihu Vedder, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows a quiet garden scene with a few stone steps leading up to a building in the background. Two large pots sit on a low wall, one near a bare tree and the other near a bush. The colors are soft—mostly grays, greens, and a touch of orange on the steps. The artist used quick, sketchy lines to capture the shapes, leaving some areas rough and others slightly blurred. The pastel medium gives it a soft, smudged look, almost like a quick note of what they saw. Next, check out how pastel works as a medium—it’s like colored chalk that can blend or stay sharp.
Elihu Vedder (26 February 1836 – 29 January 1923) was an American symbolist painter, book illustrator and poet from New York City.
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