Martin Johnson Heade (1819–1904)
Hummingbirds and Red Flowers, ca. 1864
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Oil on canvas
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13 x 11 inches
Provenance
- Sale, Christie’s, New York, New York, December 5, 1986, lot 28D
- [With] Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, New York
- [With] Alexander Galleries, New York, New York
- [With] Altman/Burke Fine Art, New York, New York
- Collection of J. Jeffrey and Ann Marie Fox
Exhibited
Adventure and Inspiration: American Artists in Other Lands, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, New York, April 16–June 3, 1988
Literature
Adventure and Inspiration: American Artists in Other Lands (New York: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1988), no. 49.
Christmas of 1989, Something for Everyone (New York: Alexander Gallery, 1989), 196–97 (as Amethyst Hummingbirds).
Theodore E. Stebbins Jr., The Life and Work of Martin Johnson Heade: A Critical Analysis and Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000), 291, no. 360.
Note
The depicted hummingbirds are male and female stripe-breasted starthroats (Heliomaster squamosus).
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