The Life and Work of Martin Johnson Heade: A Critical Analysis and Catalogue RaisonnéYale University Press, 2000 M01 1 - 389 pages Martin Johnson Heade was one of the most significant American painters of the nineteenth century, creator of portraits, history and genre pictures, still lifes, ornithological studies, landscapes, and marines, and his own unique orchid and hummingbird compositions. This book brings a perspective to Heade and his works, presenting him as one of the most original and productive painters of his time. Theodore Stebbins builds on his acclaimed 1975 study of Heade, drawing on several newly discovered collections of Heade's letters and the painter's own Brazilian journal. Stebbins tells of Heade's training and early career as an itinerant portraitist and discusses his move to New York, where, under the influence of Frederic E. Church, he began painting landscapes and seascapes. He examines Heade's relationships with patrons and dealers, writers and scientists, and he sheds new light on Heade’s trips to Brazil, to the Central American tropics, and to London. And he describes Heade's move to Florida in 1883, which marked not his retirement but a final period of creativity that lasted until his death in 1904. The book includes not only an examination of Heade's life and works but also reproductions of all his 620 known paintings, including nearly 250 that have been discovered since 1975. |
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Academy of Design Adler Galleries American Art American Paintings amethyst woodstar Art Gallery Art Museum artist Augustine birds Boston Brazil Cattleya labiata Christie's Church composition Conn crimson topaz dated lower left dated lower right Flagler Florida Former title Gems of Brazil Gerdts Gift Graphite Graphite on paper Heade Private collection Heade to Bartlett Heade's Heed Henry Morrison Flagler Hirschl and Adler Hudson River School Hummingbirds John John Russell Bartlett Karolik Collection Kennedy Galleries Location unknown M. J. Heade Private Martin Johnson Heade Maxim Karolik Museum of Art Newburyport Newport nineteenth century Oil on canvas Orchid painter Peruvian sheartail portrait Private collection PROVENANCE PROVENANCE Private collection REFERENCES Stebbins 1975 Roses Signed and dated Signed lower left Signed lower right Sir Morton Peto sketch Sotheby's Spanierman Gallery Stebbins 1969a Study Sunset Tropical Vase verso Victor Spark Washington William York EXHIBITIONS