Martin Johnson Heade, 1859 - Approaching Thunder Storm - fine art print

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Heade became a good friend of the acclaimed landscape painter Frederic Church (1826–1900), but he worked on the periphery of the Hudson River School. He specialized not in dramatic wilderness subjects, as many of the school did, but preferred more prosaic marshlands and coastal settings. Even when he painted storms, as here, he portrayed not the actual tempest, but its tense preamble of blackening sky and eerily illumined terrain. This painting was based on a sketch of an approaching storm that Heade witnessed on Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay about 1858. The image became the basis for a more elaborate and synthetic version of the subject painted in 1868 (Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas).

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Approaching Thunder Storm was created by Martin Johnson Heade. The original version was painted with the exact size: 28 x 44in (71,1 x 111,8cm) Framed: 42 1/2 × 58 3/8 × 5 in (108 × 148,3 × 12,7 cm) and was painted with the medium oil on canvas. It is included in the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's art collection. This public domain artpiece is included with courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Erving Wolf Foundation and Mr. and Mrs. Erving Wolf, in memory of Diane R. Wolf, 1975. Furthermore, the work of art has the creditline: Gift of Erving Wolf Foundation and Mr. and Mrs. Erving Wolf, in memory of Diane R. Wolf, 1975. Moreover, alignment of the digital reproduction is in landscape format and has an aspect ratio of 3 : 2, meaning that the length is 50% longer than the width. Martin Johnson Heade was a male painter, traveller, whose style was mainly Realism. The Realist painter lived for a total of 85 years, born in 1819 in Lumberville, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, United States and passed away in the year 1904 in Saint Augustine, Saint Johns county, Florida, United States.

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