Apple Blossoms in a Vase
1867
Martin Johnson Heade
Artist, American, 1819 - 1904
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on board
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 35.6 x 30.5 cm (14 x 12 in.)
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Accession Number
2025.89.6
West Building Main Floor, Gallery M69
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Cyrus W. Field [1819-1892], New York; by descent to his great-granddaughter, Mrs. Alice Judson Jones [1894-1986], Washington, D.C.; (Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1971); sold 12 May 1972 to John Wilmerding, New York [1938-2024]; bequest 2025 to NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1969
Martin Johnson Heade, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; University of Maryland Art Gallery; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1969, no. 24, repro.
2004
American Masters from Bingham to Eakins. The John Wilmerding Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004-2005, no. 13, repro.
Bibliography
1975
Stebbins, Theodore E. The Life and Works of Martin Johnson Heade. New Haven, 1975: 121, 123, no. 105, fig. 68.
1999
Stebbins, Theodore E. Martin Johnson Head, New Haven, 1999:58.
2000
Stebbins, Theodore E. The Life and Works of Martin Johnson Heade: A Critical Analysis and Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven, 2000: 128-129, 133, 298,, no. 392, repro.
Inscriptions
lower right: M.J. Heade 67