Yosemite Valley Landscape Commemorated on Postage Aug 17, 2008
" Joining Giannoni-Jackson in dedicating the stamp were Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee member Jessica Helfand and American Philatelic Society Past President Janet Klug. One of the preeminent American landscape painters of the 19th century, Bierstadt is considered to be a second-generation member of the Hudson River School, a group of artists devoted to the American landscape. Best known for his Western landscapes, he was strongly influenced by the dramatic images of German painters active in... (PR Newswire)
Unheralded for years, painting goes for $1m Aug 3, 2008
The painting that had belonged to a Cape Cod family for decades and only recently identified as a Martin Johnson Heade sold for more than $1 million yesterday at auction. It was the biggest sale Eldred's auction gallery has made, said Bob Eldred, one of the owners and president of the East Dennis business. (Boston Globe)
Cape family strikes gold at home Jul 25, 2008
And those who study its painter, Martin Johnson Heade, had no idea it existed ... Stebbins's "The Life and Work of Martin Johnson Heade," a critical analysis of the 19th-century American painter's work, was published in 2000, when there were 619 known Heade paintings. (Boston Globe)
Flagler College receives awards Jul 19, 2008
The rehabilitation showcased the original details of the Henry Flagler-era structure, which was used originally by renowned artists such as Martin Johnson Heade. Roman bond brickwork and palm tree trunk column supports were restored on the exterior, and the interior facilities were updated with a spiral staircase, a skylight and open-beamed ceilings. (The St. Augustine Record)
Gallery Ghost by Anna Nilsen May 22, 2008
Martin Johnson Heade (Cattleya Orchid and Three Brazilian Hummingbirds). Edward Hicks (Peaceable Kingdom). (Suite101.com)
Kelly New Deputy Director at NGA May 3, 2008
1890) by Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904). Senior Curator of American and British Paintings at the since 2002, Mr. Kelly is also the author of many scholarly books, exhibition catalogues, articles and essays. (Suite101.com)
Independent Reader: Hummingbirds, heists and lost loves May 2, 2008
Henry Ward Beecher, who "loved things that flickered," collected stuffed hummingbirds and Hudson River School painter Martin Johnson Heade painted the birds in formal portraits. In the post-Civil War travel boom, Heade hied himself to the forests of Nicaragua and met Mark Twain, another traveler. (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
Flights of fancy Apr 20, 2008
A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson HeadeBy Christopher BenfeyPenguin, 287 pp ... Twenty years later, during the summer of 1882, the nature-loving artist Martin Johnson Heade (a Pennsylvania Quaker drawn to New York and New England), who painted more than 100 scenes of hummingbirds, often seen with sensuous orchids, went to Amherst with hopes of courting Mabel Loomis Todd (whom he... (Boston Globe)
Wal-Mart heiress roils art world Mar 27, 2008
The collection includes Gilbert Stuarts 1797 painting of George Washington, Charles Bird Kings early 19th-century portraits of American Indian leaders, and works by Winslow Homer, Norman Rockwell and Martin Johnson Heade. Museum director Robert G. Workman, a 30-year veteran of the art world and former deputy director of the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth , says reports suggesting his big city peers are taking a snobbish view of the $50 million project are not true. (MSNBC -- Race)
Thin on the ground Mar 21, 2008
Most of the leading figures are represented by a painting or two and there are some surprises - notably a breathtaking small landscape by the American artist Martin Johnson Heade, two thrilling volcano pictures by Dahl, striking pieces by relatively unheralded post-impressionists such as Jan Toorop and Maximilien Luce and a great Gauguin - Haystacks In Brittany (1890). It could be argued that it is worth seeing this show for maybe a dozen outstanding paintings including works by van Gogh,... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
St. Augustine treasure on display Oct 10, 2007
"Besides Martin Johnson Heade, Cunningham is the second most popular folk art artist," Lightner Museum director Robert Harper said. "The fact that the exhibit is sponsored by the president and the first lady is significant.". (The St. Augustine Record)
Seeing the light in a maverick's new work Jul 8, 2007
Under the influence of 19th - century American Luminists like John Frederick Kensett and Martin Johnson Heade , he began to create landscapes with smooth, glowing skies, fluffy, curiously blocky clouds, and trees, rocks, and other topographical elements painted in hyper-realistic detail. These new works, which he displayed in massive black frames of his own construction, he called his "Good Paintings" to distinguish them from his early "Bad Paintings.". (Boston Globe)
Chris Reilly's luminous art Jul 6, 2007
Martin Johnson Heade, with his late-19th-century images of hummingbirds and orchids, is a kindred spirit, as are early 20th-century modernists such as Arthur Dove and Georgia O'Keeffe. And like the slightly later Northwest painter, Morris Graves, Reilly brings a loosely Buddhist slant to his work. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Anonymous art donor comes forth May 9, 2007
The Gallery has also benefited from Wilmerding's philanthropy: In 2004, he from the 19th century by artists such as Frederic Edwin Church, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, Martin Johnson Heade and George Caleb Bingham to its collection. "I decided to do it in my lifetime, instead of in a dreary obituary that I would never read," Wilmerding told the Princeton Weekly Bulletin about his donation to the National Gallery in 2004. (The Daily Princetonian, NJ)
Develpoing his art through a series of shots Feb 25, 2007
His models for the photographs were "luminist" painters like John Frederick Kensett, Fitz Hugh Lane and Martin Johnson Heade, who were celebrated for the still clarity of their light and form. ARCADIA REVISITED: Seeking to recapture a sense of "the Sublime" amid hydroelectric installations, chemical plants and tourist facilities, Pfahl keyed on the little-known 19th century etchings of Amos W. Sangster of the Niagara River from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario. (Buffalo News -- Entertainment)
How much - $5 or $50m? Nov 8, 2006
Paintings by the 19th-century American artist Martin Johnson Heade have a history of turning up in garage sales and at flea markets. Magnolia Blossoms on Blue Velvet and Cherokee Roses were bought for less than $100 in 1996, selling for more than $1 million that same year. (London Times Online)
Crystal Bridges announces loan of George Washington portrait Aug 9, 2006
Among the acquisitions are works by Winslow Homer, Martin Johnson Heade and Asher B. Durand's painting Kindred Spirits, for which Walton paid a reported $35 million. A service of the Associated Press(AP). (Pine Bluff Commercial, AR)
David Thorpe's retro collages are on display at Worcester Art Museum Jul 23, 2006
But they're too buttoned up to compete with the ravishing hot-house landscape he chose, for example, by Martin Johnson Heade: a pair of shimmering green hummingbirds perched near an ominous pink orchid above a lush, sweaty valley. Nor, for all their mystery and romance, do Thorpe's works have the drama of those illustrations created by the masters of pulp adventure, which his art echoes. (Boston Globe -- Living)
