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Martin Johnson Heade (August 11, 1819 – September 4, 1904) was an American painter known for his salt marsh landscapes, seascapes, and depictions of hummingbirds, often depicted with orchids, as well as lotus blossoms and other still lifes.
Approaching Thunder Storm is an 1859 painting by American painter Martin Johnson Heade. It was his largest painting to date. [1] The painting is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [2] It is praised for its dramatic depiction of the threatening mood of blackening skies and eerily illuminated terrain prior to the storm itself. [2]
Heade was the first artist to paint live hummingbirds in their natural environment as opposed to dead hummingbirds in a studio setting. [7] According to Stebbins, "during the early 1870s Heade moved from conventional still-life compositions, in which he would typically paint a vase of flowers resting on a table indoors, to a highly unusual format–hardly a 'still-life' at all–where he would ...
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Sunlight and Shadow: The Newbury Marshes (c. 1871–1875) is an oil-on-canvas landscape by the American artist Martin Johnson Heade . Heade probably became acquainted with the salt marshes near the mouth of the Merrimack River at Newbury and Newburyport, Massachusetts in 1859 through Bishop Thomas March ...
A large museum and archive, part of the original Church property, is open to the public and includes over 700 works by Church as well as thousands of works of art by other artists, including paintings by Martin Johnson Heade, Arthur Parton and John Thomas Peele and numerous works by Church's close friend, the sculptor Erastus Dow Palmer.
There are 10 paintings, including a 19th-century oil on canvas depiction of hummingbirds, and gold and purple orchids by Martin Johnson Heade that’s likely to bring in between $1.2 and $1.8 million.
The museum's collections are spread throughout eight buildings in Chicago, and not all works are on display. ... Martin Johnson Heade (1819–1904), 2 paintings ...
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Cattleya Orchid and Three Hummingbirds (1871) is an oil-on-mahogany-panel painting by the American artist Martin Johnson Heade . It is now in the National Gallery of Art , which acquired it in 1982.