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| Keywords: Martin Johnson Heade - Haystacks on the Newburyport Marshes - Walters 372531.jpg It took Heade several decades to arrive at the mature landscape style for which he is now admired Initially trained in the studio of sign-painter Edward Hicks Heade traveled constantly during his early career both in Europe and America and was probably most influenced by the art of Frederic Edwin Church Eventually he developed his own unique approach to his landscape motifs adopting an unusually broad format that allowed him to emphasize the drama of wide vistas like this one Unlike the artists associated with the Hudson River school of American landscape painting Heade was fascinated with the momentary as opposed to the eternal often painting from nature in an attempt to capture the ever-changing conditions of light and atmosphere In this sense he anticipated the preoccupations of the impressionists This painting depicts the salt marshes at Newburyport Massachusetts It dates to Heade's earliest experiments with what would become a favorite format and subject matter 1862 Oil on canvas cm 63 9 127 4 ; framed cm 78 7 142 2 8 9 accession number 37 2531 17320 Robert C Hall Baltimore 1830-1908 date and mode of acquisition unknown Dr Alan C Woods Sr date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Gift of Dr Alan C Woods Sr 1976 Signed and dated lower right M J Heade 1862 The Taste of Maryland Art Collecting in Maryland 1800-1934 The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1984 The Walters' American Collection The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2005-2006 place of origin USA Walters Art Museum license 2D Paintings of marshes by Martin Johnson Heade Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Paintings in the Walters Art Museum | ||||
