Two Studies of Islands from The Thousand Islands Sketchbook
Martin Johnson Heade, American, 1819 - 1904
about 1860
Graphite on wove paper
Sheet: 6 3/8 × 10 1/8 in. (16.2 × 25.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
D.999.40
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, center right: Thousand Islands; center left: 25 ft long; upper right, within island: very near; numbered, upper right (by Spanierman Gallery): 5 [encircled]
Exhibition History
Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 29-May 29, 2005; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, June 24-September 11, 2005; National Academy Museum, New York City, New York, October 20-December 31, 2005.
This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World, Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 5–July 22, 2022.
Publication History
Theodore Stebbins, The Life and Works of Martin Johnson Heade, New Haven and New London: Yale University Press, 1975, p. 290, no. 398.
Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, pp. 20, 88, 254-255, ill. p. 89, no. 18.
Provenance
The artist; by descent to Sam Heed (the artist's nephew), Lumberville, Pennsylvania; to Mrs. Elsie Heed Housley (his daughter), Lumberville, Pennsylvania, until 1969; to Ross Kepler, New Jersey, until 1993; Sotheby's, New York, New York, "American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture," May 27, 1993, in lot 202, as the Housley Sketchbook; sold to Spanierman Gallery, LLC, New York, New York, 1993; sold to present collection, 1999.
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