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Martin Johnson Heade American, 1819-1904 Rhode Island Scene (A Lake Study), 1860 Signed Heade and dated 60 (ll) Oil on canvas 6 3/4 x 12 1/8 inches Provenance: Paul W. Cooley, West Hartford, CT, by 1975 Costas Lemonopoulos, St. Petersburg, FL (on loan to the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL, 1983-91) Private collection Literature: Theodore Stebbins, Jr. The Life and Works of Martin Johnson Heade New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1975, p. 218 illus., cat. no. 34. Linda S. Ferber and William H. Gerdts. The New Path: Ruskin and the American Pre-Raphaelites. Brooklyn, N. Y.: Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1985, p. 267. Timothy A. Eaton. Small and Beautiful: The Issue of Scale. West Palm Beach, FL: 1997, pp. 26, 54 illus., cat. no. 10 (as Rhode Island Scene). Theodore Stebbins, Jr. The Life and Work of Martin Johnson Heade -A Critical Analysis and Catalogue Raisonne. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000, p. 215 illus., cat. no. 69. After moving to New York City in 1858, Martin Johnson Heade began painting landscapes, a shift encouraged by his neighbors in the famous Tenth Street Studio Bulidng, including Frederic E. Church, Sanford Gifford, and John Casilear. As noted by Heade's scholar Theodore Stebbins, by the end of 1859 the artist's vision was fully formed. Painted the following year, this work exemplifies Head's mature landscapes, with its horizontal format, central recession framed by trees, carefully described details, unobtrusive brushwork and glowing, atmospheric light. The location of the view is probably near Mount Hope Bay, a tidal estuary in the Narragansett Basin. C The Spanierman Gallery, LLC Collection of American Art
Glue relined. Frame rubbing. Slight craquelure. Extensive inpaint throughout the sky. Repaired vertical 1 inch tear at the upper right edge. Area of water floresces under UV light. There is a 1 1/4 inch area of inpaint at the lower right foreground, approximately 3 1/2 from the right.