Newburyport Meadows

Newburyport Meadows by Martin Johnson Heade

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

10 1/2 x 22 in. (26.7 x 55.9 cm)

Classification

Painting

Culture

American

Department

The American Wing

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Mrs. Samuel P. Reed Gift, Morris K. Jesup Fund, Maria DeWitt Jesup Fund, John Osgood and Elizabeth Amis Cameron Blanchard Memorial Fund and Gifts of Robert E. Tod and William Gedney Bunce, by exchange, 1985

Accession Number

1985.117

Tags

LandscapesHaystacks

Art Historical Context

In the tranquil expanse of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's American Wing, Martin Johnson Heade's *Newport Meadows* (ca. 1876–81) invites visitors to savor the quiet poetry of New England's coastal landscapes. This intimate oil on canvas, measuring just 10½ × 22 inches, portrays sunlit haystacks rising from lush meadows, evoking the rhythms of rural life in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Heade, a prominent 19th-century American artist linked to the Luminist movement, mastered subtle atmospheric effects, using delicate glazes and diffused light to create a sense of ethereal calm and timelessness. ...

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