id: 173665 accession number: 1915.461 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1915.461 updated: 2022-09-22 11:06:12.965000 Orchid Blossoms, 1873. Martin Johnson Heade (American, 1819–1904). Oil on canvas; framed: 47.6 x 40 x 7 cm (18 3/4 x 15 3/4 x 2 3/4 in.); unframed: 38.1 x 30.6 cm (15 x 12 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 1915.461 title: Orchid Blossoms title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1873 creation date earliest: 1873 creation date latest: 1873 current location: creditline: Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection copyright: --- culture: America, 19th century technique: oil on canvas department: American Painting and Sculpture collection: American - Painting type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Martin Johnson Heade (American, 1819–1904) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 47.6 x 40 x 7 cm (18 3/4 x 15 3/4 x 2 3/4 in.); Unframed: 38.1 x 30.6 cm (15 x 12 1/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: signed lower right: M.J. Heade / 1873 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Exhibition of the Month: Flowers in Art opening date: 1952-05-06T04:00:00 Exhibition of the Month: Flowers in Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 6-June 5, 1952). title: Horticulture Motifs in Art opening date: 1955-03-09T05:00:00 Horticulture Motifs in Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art (March 9-April 24, 1955). title: Near-Looking: A Close-Focus Look at a Basic Thread of American Art opening date: 1974-10-27T04:00:00 Near-Looking: A Close-Focus Look at a Basic Thread of American Art. Northern Illinois University Art Gallery, DeKalb, IL (organizer) (October 27-November 22, 1974). title: American Paintings 1825 - 1915 from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 1979-07-07T04:00:00 American Paintings 1825 - 1915 from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum, Coshocton, OH (organizer) (July 7-November 1, 1979). title: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00 Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991). title: Artistic Luxury: Fabergé Tiffany Lalique opening date: 2008-10-19T04:00:00 Artistic Luxury: Fabergé Tiffany Lalique . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2008-January 18, 2009). title: The Unity of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt and the Americas opening date: 2014-04-29T00:00:00 The Unity of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt and the Americas. The Americas Society, New York, NY (organizer) (April 29-July 26, 2014). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Near-Looking. Northern Illinois University Art Gallery, Dekalb, IL (October 27-November 22, 1974). * American Paintings, 1825-1915, from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum, Coshocton, OH (July 7-November 1, 1979). * A Nation's Legacy, 150 Years of American Art from Ohio Collections. Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (organizer) (January 19-March 15, 1992); the Isetan Museum, Tokyo (April 9-May 5, 1992); the Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamaguchi, Japan (May 12- June 21, 1992); the Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Ar, Fukushima, Japan, (June 27-August 2, 1992); the Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Takamatsu, Japan (August 7-September 6, 1992); Daimaru Museum Umeda, Osaka, Japan (September 23-October 5, 1992). --- PROVENANCE Hinman B. Hurlbut, Cleveland, OH, by 1878; his bequest to CMA, 1915. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: In 1863 Heade took the first of three trips to South America, with an amateur naturalist, the Reverend C. J. Fletcher, to do studies for a projected (though never published) book on hummingbirds. As an outgrowth of that experience, Heade made a large number of paintings of birds and flowers, especially orchids, in a tropical setting. In this way he combined his main interests of still life and landscape--a union of themes he maintained in his work into the 20th century. The paintings are characterized by meticulous and precise rendering of detail and high-keyed luminescent color. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Northern Illinois University. Near-Looking, A Close-Focus Look at a Basic Thread of American Art. [Catalogue of the Exhibition] Oct. 27-Nov. 22, 1974. DeKalb, Ill: Northern Illinois University, 1974. page number: no. 10, p. 29, ill. p. 30 url: Johnson-Humrickhouse Memorial Museum, Coshocton, Ohio. American Paintings, 1825-1915, from the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Inaugural Exhibition at the New Home of the Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum, July 7 - Nov. 1, 1979. 1979. page number: cat. no. 13 url: Maciejunes, Nannette V., and Norma J. Roberts. A Nation's Legacy: 150 Years of American Art from Ohio Collections. [Columbus, Ohio]: Columbus Museum of Art, 1992. page number: cat. no 10, color pl. p. 35 url: Harrison, Stephen, Emmanuel Ducamp, Jeannine J Falino. Artistic Luxury: Fabergé Tiffany Lalique. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2008. page number: Reproduced: P. 266, fig. 104 url: McIntyre, Robert G. Martin Johnson Heade, 1819-1904. New York, NY: Pantheon Press, 1948. page number: Mentioned: p. 34, 61 url: Stebbins, Theodore E. The Life and Works of Martin Johnson Heade. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1975. page number: Reproduced: cat. 193 url: Foshay, Ella Milbank. "Nineteenth Century American Flower Painting and the Botanical Sciences." Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University, 1979. page number: Reproduced: p. 299, fig. 9-8; Mentioned: p. 469 url: Turner, Evan H. Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 14 url: Stebbins, Theodore E., Janet L. Comey, and Karen E. Quinn. The Life and Work of Martin Johnson Heade: A Critical Analysis and Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000. page number: Reproduced: p. 257, cat. 221; p. 331, fig. 441 url: Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993. page number: Reproduced: p. 103 url: Harrison, Stephen, Emmanuel Ducamp, and Jeannine J. Falino. Artistic Luxury: Fabergé Tiffany Lalique. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2008. page number: Reproduced: p. 266, fig. 104 url: De Havenon, Georgia Riley, Christina De León, Alicia Lubowski-Jahn, Gabriela Rangel, and Christopher Winks. Unity of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt and the Americas. New York, NY: Americas Society, New York; Bielefeld, Germany: Kerber Verlag, 2014. page number: Reproduced: p. 139 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1915.461/1915.461_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1915.461/1915.461_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1915.461/1915.461_full.tif