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Accession #	47.8
Artist	Martin Johnson Heade
Title	Summer Showers
Date	ca. 1865-1870
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	13 1/8 × 26 1/4 in. (33.4 × 66.6 cm) frame (2024 remeasured frame): 19 3/4 × 32 3/4 × 3 3/4 in. (50.2 × 83.2 × 9.5 cm)
Signed	Signed lower left: "M J Heade"
Credit Line	Dick S. Ramsay Fund
Location	Visible Storage: Case 16, Screen D (Paintings)

Curatorial Remarks: Although Martin Johnson Heade’s depictions of marshy coastal wetlands offered little topographical drama, his small panoramic paintings of the salt-hay harvests from the 1860s to the 1880s adeptly captured fleeting effects of light and weather. Bluntly cropped at all four edges, these scenes lack a traditional dramatic focus, distinguishing them from the mainstream of landscape imagery at the time.