id: 173480 accession number: 1915.687 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1915.687 updated: 2023-04-26 11:23:58.947000 Apple Blossoms, 1873. Martin Johnson Heade (American, 1819–1904). Oil on canvas; unframed: 35.8 x 30.7 cm (14 1/8 x 12 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 1915.687 title: Apple 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: Unframed: 35.8 x 30.7 cm (14 1/8 x 12 1/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: signed lower left: MJ 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, Cleveland, OH (March 9-April 24, 1955). 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Hinman B. Hurlbut, Cleveland, OH, by 1878; his bequest to CMA, 1915. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall 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. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS 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. page number: Mentioned: p. 74 url: McIntyre, Robert G. Martin Johnson Heade, 1819-1904. New York: Pantheon Press, 1948. page number: Mentioned: p. 34, p. 61 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. "Landscape and Light." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. 60:1 (January, 1973). pp. 9-20. page number: Reproduced: p. 15, fig. 7 url: Stebbins, Theodore E. The Life and Works of Martin Johnson Heade. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975. page number: Reproduced: cat. 214 url: 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. page number: Reproduced: p. 211, 311; fig. 442 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: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1915.687/1915.687_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1915.687/1915.687_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1915.687/1915.687_full.tif