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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 ...
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.
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.
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.
This rather small painting (approximately 24” × 18”) shows Kahlo in a frontal position and directly confronting the viewer's gaze from the canvas with leaves behind her in the background. Her bold eyebrows hold the emphasis on her face, as a thorn necklace strangles her throat, trailing down her chest like the roots of a tree.
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 ...