Summer Showers
Martin Johnson Heade
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
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.
Caption
Martin Johnson Heade (American, 1819–1904). Summer Showers, ca. 1865–1870. Oil on canvas, 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). Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 47.8. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
Summer Showers
Date
ca. 1865–1870
Medium
Oil on canvas
Classification
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)
Signatures
Signed lower left: "M J Heade"
Credit Line
Dick S. Ramsay Fund
Accession Number
47.8
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