Wet paint: Herman melville, elihu vedder, and artists undersea

American Art

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 107-135

  Eldredge, Charles C ^a  

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EID: 62449096933     PISSN: 10739300     EISSN: 15496503     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/424298     Document Type: Review

References (51)

1. Elihu Vedder to Elizabeth Shaw Melville, New York, 19 April 1896, reprinted in Herman Melville: Cycle and Epicycle, ed. Eleanor Melville Metcalf (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1970), p. 288
2. Pfaffs habitue's included such celebrated Melvilleans as Charles Henry Webb, whose enthusiasm for Moby-Dick led him to ship out on a Martha's Vineyard whaler. Webb also was fond of recalling his ultimately successful search for a member of the crew that had rescued Melville when the author was imprisoned in the valley of the Typees in the Marquesas. See Van Wyck Brooks, The Times of Melville and Whitman (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1947), pp. 206-7
3. Herman Melville, Timoleon Etc. (New York: Caxton Press, 1891), p. 15. Unlike Timoleon, Vedder did from time to time leave Capri for Rome, New York, and other destinations
4. Christopher Sten, "Melville and the Visual Arts: An Overview," in Savage Eye: Melville and the Visual Arts, ed. Christopher Sten (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1991), pp. 30-34
5. and Vedder to "Dear Madam," declining invitation to speak at Brooklyn "Women's Art School," [March 1887], Elihu Vedder Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
6. Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, ed. Charles Feidelson, Jr. (1851; reprint, Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1964), pp. 207, 405
7. Herman Melville, John Marr and Other Poems (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1922), p. 204.
8. Vedder's painting of Saint Simeon Stylites is illustrated in color in Elihu Vedder, Digressions of V. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1910), p. 321
9. Melville, Moby-Dick, pp. 613, 366, 214, 617-18,241,617-18
10. Rev. Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies (1863; reprint, London: Macmillan, 1874), pp. 66, 122
11. Jacques-Yves Cousteau, "Introduction," in Arthur C. Clarke, The First Five Fathoms (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1960), p. ix
12. Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, annotated by Walter James Miller (1869; reprint, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1976), p. 104
13. Theodore Pratt, Mr. Limpet (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945), pp. 8-9
14. See, for instance, Guglielmo Matthiae, Pittura Romana del Medioevo, vol. 2 (Rome: Fratelli Palombi, 1965), fig. 11
15. Melville, Timoleon, p. 51
16. Kingsley, Water Babies, pp. 281-82
17. Jay Robert Nash and Stanley Ralph Ross, The Motion Picture Guide, vol. 8 (Chicago: Cinebooks, 1986), p. 3626
18. Brian Wallis, "Robert Flynt: Shallow Anatomies," Views: The Journal of Photography in New England 9 (summer 1988): 17. For examples of F. H. Taylor's split focus
19. Jules Michelet, The Sea (London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1875), p. 51
20. Burne-Jones, quoted in Georgianna Burne-Jones, Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones, vol. 2 (London: MacMillan, 1906), p. 124
21. William H. Beard, Action in Art (New York: Cassell, 1893), pp. 275, 279-80
22. E. F. T. Bennett, "The Movements of Fish," Art Journal (London) 7 (1899): 291
23. Arthur M. Edwards, Life Beneath the Waters, or The Aquarium in America (New York: H. Balliere, 1858), pp. 2, 14
24. Paul Klee, Naples, 25 March 1902, quoted in Charles Werner Haxthausen, Paul Klee: The Formative Years (New York: Garland, 1981), p. 80, quotation on p. 79
25. Emily Farnham, "Charles Demuth: His Life, Psychology and Works," vol. 1 (Ph.D. diss., Ohio State University, 1959), p. 298
26. James Johnstone, Life in the Sea. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1911), p. 7
27. Robert Ballard, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1974, quoted in Robert F. Burgess, Ships beneath the Sea: A History of Subs and Submersibles (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975), p. 235
28. See also Matthew F. Maury, Physical Geography of the Sea (New York: 1855)
29. Robert F. Marx, Into the Depths: The History of Man's Underwater Exploration (New York: Von Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1978), p. 166. Lake reported his early adventures to a wide and enthusiastic audience in McClure's Magazine, January 1899
30. See, for instance, Masson's The Depths of the Sea (1937, private collection), reproduced in William Rubin, Andre Masson (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1976), p. 40
31. and Richard Stankiewicz, Diving to the Bottom of the Ocean (1958, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris)
32. Shakespeare, The Tempest, act I, scene 2
33. Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues, pp. 246-47, 249
34. Walter Montgomery, ed., American Art and American Art Collections (Boston: E. W. Walker & Co., 1889), p. 851
35. Salvadore Dali, quoted in Robert Descharnes, Salvador Dali: The Work, the Man, trans. Eleanor R. Morse (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1984), p. 231
36. "Here It Is!" Art Digest 13 (May 1939): 12
37. Bette Midler, quoted in "News-makers," Newsweek, 2 July 1979, p. 37
38. Saturday Evening Post, 30 August 1955
39. James Jones, Go to the Widow-Maker (n.p.: Delacorte Press, 1967), pp. 583-86
40. T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915), in Modern American Poetry, ed. Louis Untermeyer (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1950), p. 401
41. Elihu Vedder, "Neptune's Siesta," poem in Vedder Papers, reel NAA-4, frame 644
42. quot;Skin Diving: New Found Thrills in an Old Pursuit," Newsweek, 7 September 1953, p. 50
43. Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, trans, and ed. James Strachey (New York: Avon Books, 1954), p. 435
44. Newsweek, quoted in Hans Hass, Men beneath the Sea: Man's Conquest of the Underwater World (1973; reprint, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1975), p. 357
45. Hilbert Schenck Jr. and Henry Kendall, "Should We Ban Goggling?" Field and Stream 58 (July 1953): 99
46. Jean-Albert Foex, Histoire sous-marine des homines: Dix milles ans sous les mers (Paris: Robert Laffont, 1964), pp. 15-16
47. John Fleck, quoted by Stephen Holden, "The Shock of the New: East Village World's Fair," New York Times, 17 June 1988, p. C27
48. J. Ross Browne, Etchings of a Whaling Cruise (1846; reprint, Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 1968), pp. 175-76, 179
49. Pliny, quoted in F. D. Ommanney, "Exploring the Deep Sea I," Geographical Magazine (London) 19 (May 1946): 57
50. Charles Baudelaire, "Man and the Sea," The Flowers of Evil, trans. James McGowan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), p. 35
51. Carl Sandburg, "The Sea Hold," in The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970)