An artist whose body of work ranges from Victorian floral still lifes, to tropical salt marshes to close examinations of flowers and hummingbirds, Martin Heade is one of the better-known and more... Read full biography
An artist whose body of work ranges from Victorian floral still lifes, to tropical salt marshes to close examinations of flowers and hummingbirds, Martin Heade is one of the better-known and more widely-traveled American artists of the 19th Century. He lived in various parts of the United States... Read full biography
An artist whose body of work ranges from Victorian floral still lifes, to tropical salt marshes to close examinations of flowers and hummingbirds, Martin Heade is one of the better-known and more widely-traveled American artists of the 19th Century. He lived in various parts of the United States including New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and St. Augustine, Florida, and he also traveled in Europe and extensively in South America where he visited Brazil, Nicaragua, Columbia, Pueto Rico and... Read full biography
An artist whose body of work ranges from Victorian floral still lifes, to tropical salt marshes to close examinations of flowers and hummingbirds, Martin Heade is one of the better-known and more widely-traveled American artists of the 19th Century. He lived in various parts of the United States including New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and St. Augustine, Florida, and he also traveled in Europe and extensively in South America where he visited Brazil, Nicaragua, Columbia, Pueto Rico and Jamaica. Heade was born in rural Pennsylvania and began his career as a portrait painter, studying with Quaker painters Edward and Thomas Hicks. His early landscapes were rather amateur Hudson-River-Style views, but became much more professional with... Read full biography
An artist whose body of work ranges from Victorian floral still lifes, to tropical salt marshes to close examinations of flowers and hummingbirds, Martin Heade is one of the better-known and more widely-traveled American artists of the 19th Century. He lived in various parts of the United States including New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and St. Augustine, Florida, and he also traveled in Europe and extensively in South America where he visited Brazil, Nicaragua, Columbia, Pueto Rico and Jamaica. Heade was born in rural Pennsylvania and began his career as a portrait painter, studying with Quaker painters Edward and Thomas Hicks. His early landscapes were rather amateur Hudson-River-Style views, but became much more professional with landscape subjects by the 1850s. He also became fascinated by hummingbirds, a subject some historians describe as an o... Read full biography
Martin Johnson Heade - Artist Info
About Martin Johnson Heade: Books
Books & Publications (287)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
Palm Beach Visual Arts
2016
Pollack, Deborah C.
200 pages (color)
Reflections-Paintings of Florida 1865-1965
2009
Libby, Gary R.
184 pages (color)
A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds Of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher STowe, and Martin Johnson Heade
2008
Benfey, Christopher
304 pages (color)
Recent Acquisitions: Fall 2008 (Exhibition catalog)
2008
Editors, Vose Galleries of Boston
39 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Celebrating 25 Years Hollis Taggart Galleries (Exhibition catalog)
2005
Bullaudy, Vivian (Essay)
0 pages (color)
Masterworks of American Painting at the De Young (De Young Museum)
2005
Burgard, Timothy Anglin; Daniell Cornell
573 pages (color)
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
American Masters from Bingham to Eakins: The John Wilmerding Collection (Exhibition catalog)
2004
Kelly, Franklin
168 pages (color)
Classic Ground: Mid-Nineteenth Century American Painting and the Italian Encounter (Exhibition catalog)
2004
Manoguerra & Simon (essays)
124 pages (color)
Martin Johnson Heade in Florida
2003
Favis, Roberta Smith
0 pages (color)
All American: Paintings and Sculpture from the Collection of the Flint Institute of (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Flint Institute of Arts
272 pages (color)
Dreams and Dramas: Moonlight and Twilight in American Art (Hollis Taggart Galleries) (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Leeds, Valerie (Essay)
88 pages (color)
An Endless Panorama of Beauty: Selections from the Jean and Alvin Snowiss Collection (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Palmer Museum of Art
142 pages (color)
American Beauty: Paintings from Detroit Institute of Arts, 1770-1920 (Exhibition catalog)