Simon Harmon Vedder Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Simon Harmon Vedder Art Value Price Guide

Sep. 17, 2024
Simon Harmon Vedder (1866-1937), a seated Highlander with a man holding a lantern, oil on canvas, signed, 21"
Est: £100 - £200
Simon Harmon Vedder (1866-1937), a seated Highlander with a man holding a lantern, oil on canvas, signed, 21" x 14.5" (53 x 37cm).
John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers
Feb. 15, 2022
Simon Harmon Vedder (American, 1866-1937) The mammoth unframed
Est: £700 - £1,000
Simon Harmon Vedder (American, 1866-1937) The mammoth signed 'SIMON HARMON VEDDER' (lower left) oil on canvas 61.3 x 46cm (24 1/8 x 18 1/8in). unframed For further information on this lot please visit the Bonhams website
Bonhams
Jan. 08, 2022
Simon Harmon Vedder (American, 1866-1937)
Est: $300 - $500
Simon Harmon Vedder (American, 1866-1937) "Pine Trees" oil on canvas signed "S.H. Vedder" (lower right) 14 7/8 x 8 7/8 inches (sight) 28 x 21 5/8 inches (frame)
Fontaine's Auction Gallery
Mar. 14, 2018
Simon Harmon Vedder (American, 1866-1937) Young Breton girl in profile
Est: £3,000 - £5,000
Simon Harmon Vedder (American, 1866-1937) Young Breton girl in profile signed, inscribed, dedicated and dated 'To Mrs Whitman./-SIMON HARMON VEDDER-/ETAPLES. 1890.' (lower left) oil on panel 46.2 x 31.5cm (18 3/16 x 12 3/8in). Footnotes Provenance Anon. sale, Mes Bernard Jozon, Yves Rabourdin, Olivier Choppin de Janvry, Paris, 18 April 1984. Private collection, UK (acquired at the above sale). Simon Harmon Vedder's charming profile portrait of a peasant child fits comfortably the work of British and American expatriate art students who formed a colony at Étaples in the Pas-de-Calais in the late 1880s. Most of these young artists followed the tenets of the modern rural Naturalism practiced by Bastien-Lepage, Léon Lhermitte and Dagnan-Bouveret. By the time of Vedder's arrival in 1890, Max Bohm, Gaines Ruger Donoho, Walter Gay, Birge Harrison, Elizabeth Nourse and Eugene Vail had all spent time in the village or were currently still in residence.υ1 They had been joined in 1887 by British artists such as Philip Wilson Steer, and, later in that year, by George Clausen and his brother-in-law, Alfred Webster, who were visiting the newly arrived Irish Impressionist, Frank O'Meara. Born in Montgomery County, New York, Vedder studied at the Metropolitan Art Museum schools in New York before registering at the atelier Julian in Paris under Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury in the autumn of 1887. He was also for a time, a student under Jean-Léon Gérôme at the École des Beaux Arts. During these years he met and married Eva Roos who was also a student in Paris, and by the early nineties the couple had settled in London and were developing reputations as illustrators. Both also exhibited at the Royal Academy and Vedder was among those selected for the American Section of the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900.υ2 Among his American confrères in 1890 Vedder would have found peasant profiles painted by Vail, Nourse and others. These inevitably accentuated the stoicism of the Étaples fisher folk. In Vedder's ingenue however, this is translated into tenderness. Yet where others might lapse into sentimentality, the young American approaches his infant sitter with all documentary instincts of a reporter. The identity of the picture's recipient, 'Mrs Whitman', remains obscure, although this could possibly be Sarah de St. Prix Wyman Whitman (1842–1904) - American stained glass artist, painter and book cover designer. In 1877, she made the first of two trips to France to study with Thomas Couture at Villiers-le-Bel and may have come across Vedder in her travels. There can be no doubt however, that the gift of Young Breton girl in profile brought innocent delight. υ1 See Jean-Claude Lesage, Peintres Americains en Pas-de-Calais, La Colonie d'Étaples, AMME Éditions, Abbeville, 2007, p. 214. υ2 Diane P Fisher Ed., Paris 1900, The American School at the Universal Exhibition, Rutgers University Press, 2000, p. 204. Vedder's portrait of the sculptor, William Goscombe John (National Museum of Wales, Cardiff) suggests that he was widely known in British artistic circles at the time.
Bonhams
Jul. 06, 2017
SIMON HARMON VEDDER, 1866 - 1937 | Sioux Indians Going to Pow Wow
Est: $40,000 - $60,000
oil on canvas signed 'Simon Harmon Vedder ' and dated '1922 ' (lower right)
Sotheby's
Apr. 29, 2017
SIMON HARMON VEDDER GENRE 'PIRATE' OIL PAINTING
Est: $300 - $500
(American 1886 - 1937) Eerie oil on canvas depicting a pirate's skull peeping out from an old chest in a dusty clattered room. Signed 'Simon Harmon Vedder' LR Also John B. Smith 117 Hempstead Road NW London stamped to verso. SIZE: 21" x 14 1/2" overall 27" x 20" CONDITION: Very good, housed in contemporary gilt wood frame. Painting appears to be professionally cleaned at some point SHIPPING: Oversize BIO: Vedder's painting skills were honed in the most noted art academies in the United States and Europe. He studied art in New York at the Metropolitan Museum School, and in Paris at the Académie Julian and École des Beaux-Arts & also resided in England. Besides painting original oils such as the present example, Vedder was known for his work as an illustrator for such noted publications as the 1922 edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe and The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott. His works have been exhibited in museums & galleries worldwide.
Midnight Sun Antique Auction
Jan. 24, 2015
Simon Harmon Vedder, Sioux Indians Going to Pow Wow
Est: $30,000 - $40,000
VEDDER, Simon Harmon (American, 1866 - 1937). Sioux Indians Going Pow Wow. Oil on canvas. Signed 'Simon Harmon Vedder' and dated 1922, l.r. Canvas size: 28 x 45 1/2 inches; framed size: 33 1/2 x 50 3/4 inches. Provenance: General August Henry Lane-Fox Pitt Rivers (1827 - 1900). This vibrant work, painted by Simon Harmon Vedder more than thirty years after the Battle of Wounded Knee ended all Sioux attempts at resistance to the inevitable encroachment of white settlers on their lands, is a quintessential expression of early twentieth-century nostalgia for a vanished American frontier. Vedder shows a band of Sioux on horseback, in full ceremonial headdress and garb, thundering through an arid desert landscape. The impressionistic painting style is perfectly suited to evoking the rushing movement of the scene depicted, and the atmosphere is highly evocative of the Far West. A golden light seems to bathe the Indians as they charge through the desert, kicking up a hazy cloud of dust behind them. Vedder's painting skills were honed in the most noted art academies in the United States and Europe. Born in New York in 1866, he studied art in New York at the Metropolitan Museum School, and in Paris at the Académie Julian and École des Beaux-Arts. Besides painting original oils such as the present example, Vedder was known for his work as an illustrator for such noted publications as the 1922 edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe and The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott. The provenance of this painting is also worthy of note. The original collector, General Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt Rivers, is widely considered the father of British archaeology. In 1880, following a decorated military career, Pitt Rivers unexpectedly inherited the substantial Rivers estate and name from his great uncle. His collection of archaeological and ethnographic objects, which he had begun to amass during his military postings in Europe, Malta, and the Crimea, rapidly grew once his inheritance granted him the resources to fully dedicate himself to his interest. In 1882 he was appointed the first Inspector of Ancient Monuments and in 1881-2 he was President of the Anthropological Institute. Pitt Rivers soon exhausted the space available in his own house to show his collections, and in 1884, 20,000 objects were donated to the Pitt Rivers Museum, which he founded at Oxford University.
Arader Galleries
Jun. 16, 2010
Simon Harmon Vedder (1866-1937) Elegant figures in
Est: £100 - £150
Simon Harmon Vedder (1866-1937) Elegant figures in an interior Signed Oil on canvas 54 x 37cm; 21¼ x 14½in With an interior scene of elegant company dining by G .Gavardos (2) 1. Good condition 2. Two flecks of paint, otherwise good
Woolley & Wallis
Sep. 19, 2009
Simon Harmon Vedder (1866-1937) American Oil on
Est: £400 - £600
Simon Harmon Vedder (1866-1937) American Oil on canvas Salutations in the garden Scene of an old man bowing to a nobleman Signed lower left 21" x 14 3/4"
Claydon Auctioneers
Mar. 14, 2009
Simon Harmon Vedder (1866-1937) American Oil on
Est: £400 - £500
Simon Harmon Vedder (1866-1937) American Oil on canvas Greetings in the garden Signed lower left 21" x 14 1/2"
Claydon Auctioneers
Nov. 10, 2007
Simon Harmon Vedder (1866-1937) American Oil on
Est: £800 - £1,000
Simon Harmon Vedder (1866-1937) American Oil on canvas Salutations in the garden Scene of an old man bowing to a nobleman Signed lower left 21" x 14 3/4"
Claydon Auctioneers