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Martin Johnson Heade
View of Marshfield, c 1865-1879
Heade painted more than one hundred canvases depicting the salt marshes of the northeastern United States. This repetition was motivated in part by the popularity of the unusual subject with his patrons, but also by his nearly obsessive desire to examine the varied effects of time and day, light, and weather on the landscape. While the gathering of salt halt required a community of workers, the artist purposefully omitted any sign of labor in order to focus on the flat expanses and curving streams of the serene landscape. |