Newburyport Meadows
Martin Johnson Heade American
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.
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