Sudden Shower, Newbury Marshes
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- Created Date
- ca. 1865-75
- Description
Martin Johnson Heade made over one hundred paintings of salt marshes, whose flat expanses provided a canvas for the play of weather and tides. In contrast to the regularly spaced haystacks, the looming clouds and veils of rain in this painting suggest impending change. Americans transformed agriculture by introducing the first effective harvesting machinery in the 1840s. Heade depicts the gathering of salt hay for animal feed, a traditional process resistant to mechanization and necessitated by the encroachment of New England's cities upon its pastures. Built on stilts, the haystack in the foreground suggests the fragility of the region's rural economy.
- Creator
Martin Johnson Heade
- Partner
- Artstor
- Contributing Institution
- Yale University Art Gallery
- Collection
- Yale University Art Gallery
- Publisher
- Yale University Art Gallery
- Type
- image
- Format
- Overall: 33.7 x 66.8cm (13 1/4 x 26 5/16 in.)Framed: 57.309 x 103.029 x 8.89cm (22 9/16 x 40 9/16 x 3 1/2 in.)Oil on canvasPaintings
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- The Yale University Art Gallery makes its photographic images of works believed to be in the public domain or with no known restrictions freely available. Please review the Gallery's image USE terms here, http://artgallery.yale.edu/
- Chicago citation style
- Martin Johnson Heade. Sudden Shower, Newbury Marshes. ca. 1865-75. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://search.openlibrary.artstor.org/object/AYALEARTIG_10312578121. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Martin Johnson Heade, (ca. 1865-75) Sudden Shower, Newbury Marshes. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://search.openlibrary.artstor.org/object/AYALEARTIG_10312578121
- MLA citation style
- Martin Johnson Heade. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://search.openlibrary.artstor.org/object/AYALEARTIG_10312578121>.