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Martin Johnson Heade

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Painting of a tropical bay with palms, flowering shrubs, two sailboats, and a rain shower over distant hills.

Coast of Jamaica

Painting of a sailboat on a calm bay with rocks and breaking waves in front and a sandy beach curving to the right.

Shore Scene: Point Judith

1863

Landscape painting of a spring valley with pink blossoming trees, a pond, and rain falling under dark clouds beside hills.

April Showers

1868

Monochrome view of a wide marsh under stormy clouds, with a small hut, haystacks, two figures, and distant hills.

Newburyport Marshes

1866

Painting of a sunlit salt marsh with haystacks, a hay cart, a tidal creek, and a stormy grey sky over distant hills.

Salt Marshes, Newburyport, Massachusetts

Still life painting of mixed flowers in a silver gilt vase on a table beside patterned drapery and a dark wall.

Vase of Mixed Flowers

1872

Painting of a calm lake at sunset with red clouds, dark trees on the left, distant hills, and a wading bird.

Sunset: Lake Champlain

1874

Grayscale painting of a gnarled tree arching over a rocky stream and dense woodland undergrowth beneath a bright sky.

Woodland Sketch

1863

Oil portrait of a young woman with dark hair, white lace collar and small gold cross, against a brown background.

Mary Rebecca Clark

1857

Painting of a marsh meadow with a tidal creek, a figure and child, grazing cattle, and a cloudy sky over hills.

Cloudy Day, Rhode Island

1861

Painting of a marsh at sunset with a red sun, pink clouds, a creek and a wading heron in the foreground.

Sunset on Long Beach

Painting of a pink lotus blossom with yellow center and closed bud on a green lily pad above water.

Lotus Blossom

1885

Painting of two magenta and cream orchids on a mossy branch, with a hummingbird perched in a misty tropical landscape.

Orchids and Hummingbird

Calm bay at sunrise with a rocky headland, a small sailboat, flying birds, and glowing pink clouds over distant islands.

Dawn

1862

Painting of a Florida lake at sunrise with a tall palm tree in the foreground and a sailboat on calm water.

Florida Sunrise

1890

Wide meadow with haystacks, shallow puddles and a hay wagon under a sky split by dark storm clouds and white cumulus.

Summer Showers

1865

Misty marsh with haystacks, a winding creek, and a figure in red beside a rowboat under a pale sky.

Jersey Marshes

1874

Dusky marsh landscape with two cattle resting near a pond, a haystack, and a glowing pink and orange sunset sky.

Marsh Scene: Two Cattle in a Field

1869

Pink lotus blossoms and buds on a dark table with green stems, in front of a dim painted landscape of trees and grass.

Lotus Flowers with a Landscape Painting in the Background

1885

Painting of a hazy sunset over a marsh meadow with haystacks, trees, a small pond, and distant grazing cattle.

Marsh Sunset, Newburyport, Massachusetts

1870

Painting of a marsh meadow with haystacks, a winding creek, a horse cart, and a storm sky over distant surf.

Marshfield Meadows, Massachusetts

1866

Painting of marsh haystacks and grazing oxen under a sky with rain falling on the left and a creek in the foreground.

Sudden Showers, Newbury Marshes

1865

Painting of a marsh at sunset with a hay wagon, haystacks, ducks on a creek, and pink clouds over flat green fields.

The Marshes at Rhode Island

1866

Painting of a sailboat in a calm bay with breaking waves on rocks, rocky headlands, and a warm hazy sky.

Rio de Janeiro Bay

1864

Painting of a calm sea at sunset with waves on a sandy beach, a sailboat, a rocky headland, and distant islands under a pink

Singing Beach, Manchester, Massachusetts

1863

Large white magnolia blossoms and buds with green leaves resting on folded gold velvet against a dark background.

Magnolias on Gold Velvet Cloth

1880

Pink orchid and a hummingbird in the foreground, with misty mountains and a waterfall in a tropical landscape behind.

Orchid and Hummingbird near a Mountain Waterfall

1902

Painting of a pink orchid, passion flowers and a hummingbird in a misty tropical landscape with palms and mountains.

Orchideen, Passionsblumen und Kolibris

1880

Painting of sailboats on a dark bay under a storm with lightning, two figures walking the sandy shore.

Thunder Storm on Narragansett Bay

1868

Sailboats on a calm sea at sunset, with rocks and waves in the foreground and gulls near the shore.

Sailing off the Coast

1869

Painting of a flat green marsh with a winding creek, several haystacks, grazing cattle, and a hazy sky over distant hills.

Hazy Day on the Marshes, New Jersey

Calm bay at dusk with rocky headland, two sailboats, pink clouds and distant islands, painted in 1862.

Singing Beach, Manchester

1862