id: 144967 accession number: 1970.161 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1970.161 updated: 2025-02-09 03:29:46.431000 Point Judith, Rhode Island, 1867–68. Martin Johnson Heade (American, 1819–1904). Oil on canvas; framed: 97 x 153.5 x 14 cm (38 3/16 x 60 7/16 x 5 1/2 in.); unframed: 72.3 x 128 cm (28 7/16 x 50 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund and Gift of Delbert Gutridge in memory of Orrel A. Parker by exchange 1970.161 title: Point Judith, Rhode Island title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1867–68 creation date earliest: 1867 creation date latest: 1868 current location: 206 American Landscape creditline: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund and Gift of Delbert Gutridge in memory of Orrel A. Parker by exchange copyright: --- culture: America 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: 97 x 153.5 x 14 cm (38 3/16 x 60 7/16 x 5 1/2 in.); Unframed: 72.3 x 128 cm (28 7/16 x 50 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed lower right: M.J. Heade translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1970 opening date: 1971-02-10T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1970. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-March 7, 1971). title: Heritage and Horizon: American Painting 1776 - 1976 opening date: 1976-03-07T05:00:00 Heritage and Horizon: American Painting 1776 - 1976. Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY (organizer) (March 7-April 11, 1976); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (May 2-June 13, 1976); The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH (July 4-August 15, 1976); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 8-October 10, 1976). title: Visions of Landscape: East and West opening date: 1982-02-17T05:00:00 Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'New York, NY, Whitney Museum of American Art, Martin Johnson Heade (10 November - 21 December 1969), not in cat.', 'opening_date': '1969-11-10T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Cleveland, OH, Cleveland Museum of Art, Year in Review for 1970 (7 February - 10 March 1971).', 'opening_date': '1971-02-07T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Buffalo, NY, Albright-Knox Art Gallery Heritage and Horizon - American Painting 1776 - 1976 (6 March - 11 April 1976); traveled to Detroit, MI, Detroit Institute of Arts (5 May - 13 June 1976); traveled to Toledo, OH, Toledo Museum of Art (4 July - 15 August 1976); traveled to Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art (8 September - 10 October 1976); cat. no. 13, ill.', 'opening_date': '1976-03-06T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Cleveland, OH, Cleveland Museum of Art, Visions of Landscape: East and West (17 February - 21 March 1982), no cat.', 'opening_date': '1982-02-17T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Cincinnati, OH, Taft Museum of Art, Night Lights - 19th and 20th Century American Nocturne Paintings (2 May - 30 June 1985), p. 4, ill. p. 10.', 'opening_date': '1985-05-02T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Providence, RI, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, The Eden of America: Rhode Island Landscapes, 1820 - 1920 (23 January - 27 April 1986), cat. no. 15, ill. p. 35.', 'opening_date': '1986-01-23T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Fort Worth, TX, Amon Carter Museum, Ominous Hush: The Thunderstorm Paintings of Martin Johnson Heade (12 February - 1 May 1994); traveled to Shelburne, VT, Shelburne Museum (4 June - 5 September 1994); traveled to New York, NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art (4 October 1994 - 8 January 1995), cat. no. 5, pl. 6, figs 36-7, p. 29-33.', 'opening_date': '1994-02-12T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio date: 1970- footnotes: citations: (Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 1969-1970 footnotes: citations: James H. and Adeline [b. 1933] Anderson, consigned to Hirschl & Adler 1 date: Probably 1969 footnotes: *
1 In July 1969, Anderson appears to have consigned the painting to Vose Galleries in Boston; their records mention a painting by Heade, "Moonlight on the Bay," with dimensions almost exactly the same as those of the CMA painting. This is almost certainly the CMA painting, as Theodore Stebbins, author of the Heade catalogue raisonné, notes that Heade painted only three moonlit scenes, and that the other two are significantly smaller in size. An inscription on the back of the CMA painting's stretcher reads, "7.29.69 J.H. Anderson," which may refer to the date Vose acquired the painting.  However, it apparently failed to sell, and it was returned to Anderson on August 8th.  He then consigned it to Hirschl & Adler later that year.

citations: Lucy Joseph Harris, Providence and Little Compton, RI, by descent to her daughter and son-in-law, Adeline and James H. Anderson date: 1953-1969 footnotes: citations: Benjamin P. Harris, Jr. [1901-1953], Providence, RI, by descent to his wife, Lucy Joseph Harris date: 1944-1953 footnotes: citations: Mona Elizabeth Tower Harris [1871-1944], Providence, RI, by descent to her son, Benjamin P. Harris, Jr. date: 1943=1944 footnotes: citations: Benjamin P. Harris, Providence, RI [1873-1943], by descent to his wife, Mona Elizabeth Tower Harris date: 1922-1943 footnotes: citations: Sarah Bullock Harris [1834-1922], Providence, RI, by descent to her son, Benjamin P. Harris date: By 1898-1922 footnotes: citations: Thomas Harris [1825-1898], Providence, RI, by descent to his wife, Sarah Bullock Harris date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Stebbins, Theodore E., Martin Johnson Heade, Janet L. Comey, and Karen E. Quinn. The Life and Work of Martin Johnson Heade: A Critical Analysis and Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. page number: url: “A Check List. American Paintings and Water Colors of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Early Twentieth Centuries in the Cleveland Museum of Art.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 60, no. 1 (January 1973): 21–35. page number: Mentioned: p. 27, no. 81 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152465 Talbot, William S. “Landscape and Light.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 60, no. 1 (January 1973): 9–20. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 13-16, figs. 5-6 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152464 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 229 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n249 Talbot, William S. “Visions of Landscape: East and West.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 70, no. 3 (March 1983): 112–135. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 124-126, fig. 21 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159808 Adams, Henry. What's American about American art?: a gallery tour in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008. page number: Reproduced: p. 78 - 79 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1970.161/1970.161_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1970.161/1970.161_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1970.161/1970.161_full.tif