View of Marshfield, c. 1866/1876

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

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.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase)

Accession Number

2015.19.173

Artists / Makers

Martin Johnson Heade (painter) American, 1819 - 1904

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right: M J. Heade

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

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Francis, John
Francis, John Brown
Peter Tillou Gallery

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1982: Acquisitions Since 1975, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 5 November 1982 - 16 January 1983, unpublished checklist.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2008: The American Evolution: A History through Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1 March - 27 July 2008, unpublished checklist.

2009: American Paintings from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 6 June - 18 October 2009, unpublished checklist.

2013: American Journeys: Visions of Place, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 21 September 2013 - 28 September 2014, unpublished checklist.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