About This Artwork
Martin Johnson Heade
American, 1819-1904
Magnolias on Light Blue Velvet Cloth, 1885/95
Oil on canvas
38.6 x 61.8 cm (15 1/4 x 24 3/8 in.)
Signed, lower right: "M. J. Heade"
Restricted gift of Gloria and Richard Manney; Harold L. Stewart Endowment, 1983.791
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
New York City, M. Knoedler and Company, The American Vision, Paintings 1825-1875, Oct. 8-Nov. 2, 1968, cat. 43.
Publication History
Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., The Life and Works of Martin Johnson Heade (Yale University Press, 1975), p. 276, no. 331.
A Record of Sharing (Art Institute of Chicago, 1984), p. 24 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report, 1983-1984, (Art Institute of Chicago, 1984), p. 9, fig. 8.
Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Little, Brown, and Company1988), p. 92 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998).
Ownership History
Private collection, Chestnut Hill, Penn., by 1975; Spanierman Gallery, New York Cit, 1983; sold to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1983.