Martin Johnson Heade, 1868 - Point Judith, Rhode Island - fine art print

Original artwork specifications from the museum's website (© - The Cleveland Museum of Art - The Cleveland Museum of Art)

During the 1860s and 1870s, many American painters shifted their interest from rendering clear-cut, well-lit scenes of recognizable places to capturing more ambiguous effects, such as the mystery of night. In Point Judith, Rhode Island, the barren, almost lunar landscape contains no figures, allowing moonlight and mystery to feature as the true subjects of the painting. Despite its seemingly generalized character, this work is based on a pencil sketch that identifies the scene's location as Scarborough Beach, looking toward the tip of Point Judith on the right side of the painting. Although he depicts an actual place, Heade devotes more attention to intangible objects in the landscape. The ominous line of assembling storm clouds and the mysterious, glowing light cast by the moon suggest that perhaps these fluid, evasive elements are more powerful than the solid forms of the landscape.

Description of the artwork created by the Realist painter Martin Johnson Heade

Point Judith, Rhode Island was created by Martin Johnson Heade in 1868. The masterpiece was made with the size - 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). Oil on canvas was used by the artist as the medium of the piece of art. The original artwork was inscribed with the following text: signed lower right: M.J. Heade. This artpiece can be viewed in in the The Cleveland Museum of Art's digital collection, which is one of the leading museums worldwide that builds, preserves, studies, and shares its outstanding collections of art from all periods and parts of the world, generating new scholarship and understanding, while serving as a social and intellectual hub for its community. With courtesy of The Cleveland Museum of Art (licensed - public domain). The creditline of the artwork is: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund and Gift of Delbert Gutridge in memory of Orrel A. Parker by exchange. On top of that, alignment is landscape and has an aspect ratio of 16 : 9, meaning that the length is 78% longer than the width. The painter, traveller Martin Johnson Heade was a North American artist, whose style can be classified as Realism. The Realist painter lived for 85 years and was born in 1819 in Lumberville, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, United States and passed away in 1904.

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