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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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Sunset above the swamp
MK169
ca. 1863
oil Paint on cloth
26x46.4cm Museum or Finn Physician
Painting ID:: 42773
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Sunset_above_the_swamp
MK169
ca. 1863
oil Paint on cloth
26x46.4cm Museum or Finn Physician
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Jersey Marshes
mk181
Jersey Marshes
1874
Ol auf Leinwand
39.4x76.2cm
Painting ID:: 45341
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Jersey_Marshes
mk181
Jersey Marshes
1874
Ol auf Leinwand
39.4x76.2cm
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Zwei Jager in einer Landschaft
mk181
1862
Ol auf Leiwand
30.5x61cm
Painting ID:: 45342
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Zwei_Jager_in_einer_Landschaft
mk181
1862
Ol auf Leiwand
30.5x61cm
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Spouting Rock
mk181
Newport
1862
Ol auf Leinwand
63.5x127cm
Painting ID:: 45343
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Spouting_Rock
mk181
Newport
1862
Ol auf Leinwand
63.5x127cm
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Roses Lying on Gold Velvet
oil on canvas painting by Martin Johnson Heade
Painting ID:: 70065
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Roses_Lying_on_Gold_Velvet
oil on canvas painting by Martin Johnson Heade
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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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