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Collection Online as of April 19, 2024

Apple Blossoms

Apple Blossoms

1873
(American, 1819–1904)
America, 19th century
oil on canvas
Unframed: 35.8 x 30.7 cm (14 1/8 x 12 1/16 in.)
Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 1915.687
Location: not on view

Description

Heade made many studies of flowers, beginning around 1860. Born in Pennsylvania, he became a professional portrait painter before visiting France, England, and Italy between 1840 and 1843. An inveterate traveler, Heade went to Europe again in the late 1840s, lived briefly in several American cities, visited South America on at least three occasions, and finally settled in Florida in 1883.
  • Hinman B. Hurlbut, Cleveland, OH, by 1878; his bequest to CMA, 1915.
  • Strahan, Edward, ed. The Art Treasures of America: Being the Choicest Works of Art in the Public and Private Collections of North America. vol. 8. Philadelphia: Gebbie & Barrie, 1879. Mentioned: p. 74
    McIntyre, Robert G. Martin Johnson Heade, 1819-1904. New York: Pantheon Press, 1948. Mentioned: p. 34, p. 61
    Cleveland Museum of Art. "Landscape and Light." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. 60:1 (January, 1973). pp. 9-20. Reproduced: p. 15, fig. 7
    Stebbins, Theodore E. The Life and Works of Martin Johnson Heade. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975. Reproduced: cat. 214
    Stebbins, Theodore E., with the assistance of Janet L. Comey and Karen E. Quinn. The Life and Work of Martin Johnson Heade: A Critical Analysis and Catalogue Raisonné. Revised edition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. Reproduced: p. 211, 311; fig. 442
    Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993. Reproduced: p. 103
  • Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991).
    Horticulture Motifs in Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 9-April 24, 1955).
    Exhibition of the Month: Flowers in Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 6-June 5, 1952).
  • {{cite web|title=Apple Blossoms|url=false|author=Martin Johnson Heade|year=1873|access-date=19 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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