Oil on canvas
Yale University Art Gallery, Gift of Theodore E
Stebbins, Jr, BA 1960, in memory of H John Heinz, III,
BA 1960 and Collection of Mary and James W
Fosburgh, BA 1933, MA 1935, by exchange
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The weather plays an important role in Heade's paintings of the salt marshes of the New England coast.
The land seems permanent, unchanging in its purpose and appearance, while the sky is constantly altered.
This provides a chronological dimension that reminds us that, in fact, even the land suffers change, and that the
apparently eternal haystacks will disappear under the impact of new ways of life and farming technology.
Here the interplay of sun and shower is mirrored in the strong contrasts of light and shade across the marsh,
so that one foreground haystack is in deep shadow while distant ones are bathed in sunshine.
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Room 6: Transcendental Vision
Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904)