Lotus Flowers: A Landscape Painting in the Background
Artist
Martin Johnson Heade
American, 1819–1904
Datecirca 1885–1900
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions16 7/8 x 36 in. (42.9 x 91.4 cm)
Frame: 31 x 50 x 4 3/4 in. (78.7 x 127 x 12.1 cm)
Frame: 31 x 50 x 4 3/4 in. (78.7 x 127 x 12.1 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of the Sarah Graham Kenan Foundation in honor of Mrs. Sarah Graham Kenan
Object numberG.75.25.1
On View
On viewCarter Ratcliff, "New York Letter," Art International 16 (March 20, 1972), 28-38, illus. (b-w) 38.
Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., The Life and Works of Martin Johnson Heade (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975), no. 316, discussed 172, illus. (b-w) fig. 93.
American Paintings from the Permanent Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art (exhibition catalogue) (Asheville: Asheville Art Museum, 1976), listed (with artist's bio.) 17, illus. (b-w) 17.
Thomas S. Kenan, III, The Sarah Graham Kenan Foundation: A History (Chapel Hill: privately printed, 1984), noted 22.
Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., The Life and Works of Martin Johnson Heade, rev. ed. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000, cat. no. 596, discussed 163, illus. (b-w) 346.
Sandra M. Barghini, Henry M. Flagler's Paintings Collection: The Taste of a Gilded Age Collector (exhibition catalogue) (Palm Beach: Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, 2002), illus. (color) 53.
Roberta Smith Favis, Martin Johnson Heade in Florida (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2003), discussed 84, 116-117, illus. (color) pl. 13.
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, Peridot-Washburn Gallery, "Martin Johnson Heade," January 5-29, 1972, no. 5, illus. (b-w) (titled Lotus).
Asheville, NC, Asheville Art Museum, "American Paintings from the Permanent Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art," May 16-June 27, 1976, listed (with artist's bio.) 17, illus. (b-w) 17.
Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina, Morehead Planetarium, "Cartier Soirée," October 16-31, 1979.
Palm Beach, FL, Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, "Henry M. Flagler's Paintings Collection: The Taste of a Gilded Age Collector," January 15-April 14, 2002, cat. p. 53, illus. (color).
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement
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