Martin Johnson Heade

by Theodore E. Stebbins; With contributions by Janet L. Comey, Karen E. Quinn, and

• ISBN13: 9780300081695
• ISBN10: 0300081693
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 1999-09-10
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904) had the longest career and produced perhaps the most varied body of work of any American painter of the nineteenth century. His prolific oeuvre ranges from American coastal marshes and marine landscapes to the lush tropical splendor of South and Central American landscapes, birds, and flowers. An independent thinker as well as a world traveler, Heade developed a singular approach to landscape and still life painting, adapting some elements of the style and practice of the Hudson River School to his own more Darwinian vision. While Heade had only a minor reputation in his own day and was completely forgotten for many decades after his death, he is now rightly regarded as an artist of great significance and originality, and as the only American whose landscapes and still lifes are equally important.

In this elegantly illustrated book, the catalogue for the second major retrospective of Heade's work in thirty years, Theodore Stebbins and his collaborators focus on the major themes of Heade's work: seascapes, salt marshes, landsca

Table of Contents

Lenders to the Exhibition	vi
Director's Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	viii
Introduction	1	(10)
Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr.
CATALOGUE
Seascapes	11	(18)
Karen E. Quinn
Marshes	29	(13)
Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr.
Landscapes	42	(7)
Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr.
Tropical Landscapes	49	(8)
Janet L. Comey
Early Still Lifes	57	(14)
Janet L. Comey
The Gems of Brazil	71	(28)
Janet L. Comey
Passion Flowers	99	(10)
Karen E. Quinn
Orchids	109	(14)
Karen E. Quinn
Florida: The Late Work	123	(18)
Janet L. Comey
ESSAYS
Picturing Heade: The Painter and his Critics	141	(28)
Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr.
The Development of Heade's Painting Technique	169	(15)
Jim Wright
Chronology	184	(6)
Checklist of the Exhibition	190	(4)
Index	194