About the Artwork
Sunset
ca. 1880
Martin Johnson Heade
1819-1904
American
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 17 1/4 × 36 3/8 inches (43.8 × 92.4 cm) Framed: 28 1/16 × 47 3/16 × 5 inches (71.3 × 119.9 × 12.7 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. Fund
46.135
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Markings
Signed, lower left: M. J. Heade
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Provenance
A. F. Mondshein. 1946-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Catalogue of Art Works Exhibited. Exh. cat., Detroit Art Loan Association. Detroit, 1883, p. 34, no. 313.
Bulletin of the DIA 27, 1 (1947): p. 18.
Martin Johnson Heade. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, 1969, no. 39.
Stebbins, T.E., Jr. The Life and Works of Martin Johnson Heade. New Haven, 1975, p. 259 (ill.).
“Family Art Game.” DIA Advertising Supplement. Detroit Free Press (April 26, 1981): p. 27 (ill.).
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Martin Johnson Heade, Sunset, ca. 1880, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. Fund, 46.135.
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