Martin Johnson Heade / Approaching Thunder Storm / 1859

Martin Johnson Heade
Approaching Thunder Storm
1859
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Creator Name: Heade, Martin Johnson
Creator Role: Artist
Creator Dates/Places: 1819-1904
Creator Name-CRT: Martin Johnson Heade
Title: Approaching Thunder Storm
View: Full View
Creation Start Date: 1859
Creation End Date: 1859
Creation Date: 1859
Object Type: Paintings
Materials and Techniques: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 28 x 44 in. (71.1 x 111.8 cm)
AMICA Contributor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Owner Location: New York, New York, USA
ID Number: 1975.160
Credit Line: Gift of Erving Wolf Foundation and Mr. and Mrs. Erving Wolf, 1975
Rights: http://www.metmuseum.org/
Context:

Heade became a good friend of the acclaimed landscape painter Frederic Church (1826-1900), but he worked on the periphery of the Hudson River School. He specialized not in dramatic wilderness subjects, as many of the school did, but preferred more prosaic marshlands and coastal settings. Even when he painted storms, as here, he portrayed not the actual tempest, but its tense preamble of blackening sky and eerily illumined terrain. This painting was based on a sketch of an approaching storm that Heade witnessed on Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay about 1858. The image became the basis for a more elaborate and synthetic version of the subject painted in 1868 (Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas).

AMICA ID: MMA_.1975.160
AMICA Library Year: 2000
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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