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Martin Johnson Heade
American Hudson River School Painter, 1819-1904 Martin Johnson Heade (August 11, 1819-September 4, 1904) was a prolific American painter known for his salt marsh landscapes, seascapes, portraits of tropical birds, and still lifes. His painting style and subject matter, while derived from the romanticism of the time, is regarded by art historians as a significant departure from that of his peers.
Art historians have come to disagree with the common view that Heade is a Hudson River School painter, a view given wide currency by Heade's inclusion in a landmark exhibition of Hudson River School landscapes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1987.
The leading Heade scholar and author of Heade's catalogue raisonn??, Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., wrote some years after the 1987 Hudson River School exhibition that "...other scholars??myself included??have increasingly come to doubt that Heade is most usefully seen as standing within that school."
According to the Heade catalogue raisonn??, only around 40 percent of his paintings were landscapes. The remaining majority were still lifes, paintings of birds, and portraits, subjects unrelated to the Hudson River School. Of Heade's landscapes, perhaps only 25 percent were painted of traditional Hudson River School subject matter.
Heade had less interest in topographically accurate views than the Hudson River painters, and instead focused on mood and the effects of light. Stebbins writes, "If the paintings of the shore as well as the more conventional compositions...might lead one to think of Heade as a Hudson River School painter, the [marsh scenes] make it clear that he was not."
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The Hummingbirds and Two Varieties of Orchids
mk77
After 1870
Oil on canvas
18x12in
Painting ID:: 31934
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The_Hummingbirds_and_Two_Varieties_of_Orchids
mk77
After 1870
Oil on canvas
18x12in
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Magnolia Buds
mk127
21x35
Painting ID:: 37663
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Magnolia_Buds
mk127
21x35
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Approaching Storm Beach near Newport
mk129
Heade-s Horizontal canvases emphasise his skies and the vastness of the sea,as well as the vulnerability of the sailing vessels and beach people that inhabit his picture.
Painting ID:: 37902
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Approaching_Storm_Beach_near_Newport
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Heade-s Horizontal canvases emphasise his skies and the vastness of the sea,as well as the vulnerability of the sailing vessels and beach people that inhabit his picture.
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Summer Showers
mk140
circa 1865-70
Oil on canvas
33.4x66.6cm
Painting ID:: 39077
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Summer_Showers
mk140
circa 1865-70
Oil on canvas
33.4x66.6cm
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Apple Blosoms and Hummingbird
mk146
OIil on canvas
1871
Painting ID:: 39280
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Apple_Blosoms_and_Hummingbird
mk146
OIil on canvas
1871
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Martin_Johnson_Heade
American Hudson River School Painter, 1819-1904 Martin Johnson Heade (August 11, 1819-September 4, 1904) was a prolific American painter known for his salt marsh landscapes, seascapes, portraits of tropical birds, and still lifes. His painting style and subject matter, while derived from the romanticism of the time, is regarded by art historians as a significant departure from that of his peers.
Art historians have come to disagree with the common view that Heade is a Hudson River School painter, a view given wide currency by Heade's inclusion in a landmark exhibition of Hudson River School landscapes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1987.
The leading Heade scholar and author of Heade's catalogue raisonn??, Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., wrote some years after the 1987 Hudson River School exhibition that "...other scholars??myself included??have increasingly come to doubt that Heade is most usefully seen as standing within that school."
According to the Heade catalogue raisonn??, only around 40 percent of his paintings were landscapes. The remaining majority were still lifes, paintings of birds, and portraits, subjects unrelated to the Hudson River School. Of Heade's landscapes, perhaps only 25 percent were painted of traditional Hudson River School subject matter.
Heade had less interest in topographically accurate views than the Hudson River painters, and instead focused on mood and the effects of light. Stebbins writes, "If the paintings of the shore as well as the more conventional compositions...might lead one to think of Heade as a Hudson River School painter, the [marsh scenes] make it clear that he was not."
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