SOLD Sailing at Sunset
by Martin Johnson Heade (1819–1904)6 x 10¼ inches
Signed lower right: MJ Heade
Provenance
Sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, New York, April 23, 1981, lot 28
Warner Collection of the Gulf States Paper Corp., Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Michael Altman Fine Art & Advisory Services, New York, New York, 2011
Exhibited
The Isabel Anderson Comer Museum, Sylacauga, Alabama, February 24–March 24, 1982
South Bend Art Center, Indiana, American Masterpieces from the Warner Collection, December 9, 1989–February 4, 1990
The Brazos Forum, Waco, Texas, America Comes of Age: Emerging Arts and Culture, Sixth Annual Brazos Forum, August 17–October 4, 1990
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama, Impressions of America: The Warner Collection of Gulf States Paper Corporation, June 18–July 28, 1991
Literature
Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., The Life and Work of Martin Johnson Heade: A Critical Analysis and Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), 218, no. 79.
Related Works
Off Shore: After the Storm, ca. 1861–1863, oil on canvas, 30⅛ x 50⅛ inches, signed lower left; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Sailing off the Coast, 1869, oil on canvas, 15 x 29 inches; The White House, Washington, DC
Artist Biography
Nineteenth Century Itinerant Artist of Striking Originality
By Amy Spencer
Heade pursued the delicately wrought realism of his Hudson River School contemporaries, underscored by his folk art training, to unify landscape painting with a scientific interest in ornithology and botany.
I. Biography
II. Chronology
III. Collections
IV. Exhibitions
V. Memberships
VI. Notes
VII. Suggested Resources
I. Biography
Only a bare outline of celebrated Martin Johnson Heade’s life is known and only a fraction of his known works have been located.1 However, despite the dearth of primary biographical material, this
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