Vedder, Elihu

Vedder, Elihu, 1836-1923, American painter, illustrator, and author, b. New York City, studied in Paris. From 1867 his permanent residence was Rome. He often used romantic landscape as a setting for allegorical images. Among his works are The African Sentinel and The Pleiades (Metropolitan Mus.) and The Keeper of the Threshold (Carnegie Inst., Pittsburgh). He is known for his illustrations for Fitzgerald's translation of The Rubaiyat. His symbolic and decorative murals include five lunettes representing good and bad government (Library of Congress). He wrote Digressions of V. (1910), Miscellaneous Moods in Verse (1914), and Doubt and Other Things (1923).

Elihu can refer to several things.

People

• Elihu, a friend of Job appearing in the Book of Job.
• Elihu Burritt (1810–1879), a philanthropist, linguist, and social activist.
• Elihu Harris, mayor of Oakland, California, U.S.
• Elihu Emory Jackson, a governor of Maryland, U.S.
• Elihu Katz (1926–), a sociologist.
• Elihu Palmer, a founder of the Deistical Society of New York.
• Elihu Root (1845–1937), an American statesman and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
• Elihu Thomson (1853–1937), an engineer instrumental in the founding of electrical companies in the United States, United Kingdom and France, and served as acting president of MIT in 1920.
• Elihu Vedder (1864–1923), a painter, book illustrator, and poet.
• Elihu B. Washburne (1816–1887), a United States politician and a founder of Republican Party
• Elihu Willsson, a leading character in Dashiell Hammett's novel Red Harvest.
• Elihu Yale (1649–1721), a benefactor of Yale University.
• Elihu Yale, the Atlanta Police Chief in Tom Wolfe's novel A Man in Full.

Organizations

• Elihu is a senior society at Yale University.