Approaching Thunder Storm
Martin Johnson Heade American
Approaching Thunder Storm is one of the earliest works in a small series of coastal storm subjects painted by Heade. Here, the artist has depicted Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, looking toward Rocky Point from Prudence Island, basing the scene on a sketch of an approaching storm he witnessed around 1858. Rejecting the convention of painting tempests at full tilt, Heade instead vividly captured the anticipation—in the words of a critic of his day, the “ominous hush”—that prevailed under a blackening sky and over the eerily illuminated terrain. The image became the basis for a more elaborate and synthetic version of the subject painted in 1868 (Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas).
#4360. Approaching Thunder Storm, Part 1
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4360. Approaching Thunder Storm, Part 1
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4572. Approaching Thunder Storm, Part 2
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