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21 Feb - 19 May 2002
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Martin Johnson Heade
Born 11 August 1819, Lumberville, Pennsylvania
Died 4 September 1904, St Augustine, Florida
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Heade was trained as a painter in the late 1830s, before making his first trip to Europe, and spending two years in Rome. He moved to New York in 1843, where his early work consisted mostly of portraits. He moved to various parts of the United States during the 1850s, exhibiting his first landscape at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1856. During the late 1850s Heade lived in New York, with a studio near that of Frederic Church, a significant influence of the development of Heade's mature style. In 1859 Heade made the first of many paintings of the salt marshes at Newburyport, Massachusetts, where he continued to paint throughout the 1870s, including works such as Sudden Shower, Newbury Marshes, 1866-76, shown in this exhibition. Heade travelled widely, in Central and South America, Jamaica, California and Florida, painting landscapes as well as the flora and fauna of the tropical forests. Never widely acclaimed in his own lifetime, the originality of Heade's work only became recognised during the last quarter of the twentieth century.
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