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Newburyport Meadows

ca. 1876–81
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 761
Departing from the images of mountainous regions favored by his fellow New York landscape painters, Heade gravitated toward tidal marshes along the northeastern seaboard. This wide, horizontal view of a marsh in Newburyport, Massachusetts, was a favorite subject of Heade’s throughout his career. The expansive compositional style of these paintings—dotted with haystacks, pools of water, laborers, and animals—provided the artist with room to capture the transient effects of light and weather.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Newburyport Meadows
  • Artist: Martin Johnson Heade (1819–1904)
  • Date: ca. 1876–81
  • Culture: American
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 10 1/2 x 22 in. (26.7 x 55.9 cm)
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Mrs. Samuel P. Reed Gift, Morris K. Jesup Fund, Maria DeWitt Jesup Fund, John Osgood and Elizabeth Amis Cameron Blanchard Memorial Fund and Gifts of Robert E. Tod and William Gedney Bunce, by exchange, 1985
  • Object Number: 1985.117
  • Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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