Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Newburyport Marsh
Image View:
Overall view without frame; view after a storm
Creator:
Martin Johnson Heade (American painter, 1819-1904)
Location:
repository: Portland Museum of Art (Portland, Maine, United States) 4.2013.3
Location Note:
7 Congress Square
GPS:
43.653611-70.262222
Date:
1875-1885 (creation)
Cultural Context:
American
Style Period:
Luminist; Nineteenth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Subjects:
landscape; estuary; salt marsh; hay stacks; Rhode Island coast
Description:
On long term loan from the Collection of Walter B. and Marcia F. Goldfarb. As with Fitz Hugh Lane, whose career suggests points of contact with Heade, his work was meticulous and restrained in handling and without painterly effects. Only in the early 1860s did Heade turn to a subject well suited to his artistic personality: the salt marshes of Newburyport, RI. He worked with a limited range of pictorial elements; haystacks, clouds, sky, water and a flatly receding earth to create a precise spatial structure within which to explore the fleeting light effects of a coastal environment. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-HEADE-NM-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Newburyport Marsh