View of Marshfield

c. 1866/1876

Martin Johnson Heade

Painter, American, 1819 - 1904

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase)

  • Dimensions

    overall: 39.05 × 76.84 cm (15 3/8 × 30 1/4 in.)
    framed: 76.2 × 114.3 × 13.97 cm (30 × 45 × 5 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.19.173


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

John Francis family, Providence, Rhode Island; by descent to John Brown Francis, Providence; purchased 1981 by (Peter Tillou Gallery, Litchfield, Connecticut); purchased 1981 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1982

  • Acquisitions Since 1975, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 5 November 1982 - 16 January 1983, unpublished checklist.

1986

  • En Ny Varld: Amerikanskt landskapmaleri, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm; Göteborgs Kontsmuseum, 1986-1987, no. 38.

1998

  • New Worlds from Old: Australian and American Landscape Painting in the 19th Century, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998-1999, no. 94, repro.

2005

  • Encouraging American Genius: Master Paintings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte; John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, 2005-2007, checklist no. 34.

2008

  • The American Evolution: A History through Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1 March - 27 July 2008, unpublished checklist.

2009

  • American Paintings from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 6 June - 18 October 2009, unpublished checklist.

2013

  • American Journeys: Visions of Place, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 21 September 2013 - 28 September 2014, unpublished checklist.

Bibliography

2011

  • Cash, Sarah. "Martin Johnson Heade, View of Marshfield." In Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Edited by Sarah Cash. Washington, 2011: 130-131, 266, repro.

Inscriptions

lower right: M J. Heade

Wikidata ID

Q19912752


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