Art, literature & history
Five Heads
c. 1918
- Dating
- Approximate
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- pen and ink and watercolor on 5 sheets of wove paper mounted to folded wove paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 14.1 × 21.2 cm (5 9/16 × 8 3/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1991.105.29
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Elihu Vedder. Five Heads. Elihu Vedder; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elihu_Vedder,_Five_Heads,_c._1918,_NGA_72922.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Five Heads — Elihu Vedder. c. 1918.
Medium: pen and ink and watercolor on 5 sheets of wove paper mounted to folded wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 14.1 × 21.2 cm (5 9/16 × 8 3/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1991.105.29. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Borghi, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.