About This Artwork
Martin Johnson Heade
American, 1819-1904
York Harbor, Coast of Maine, 1877
Oil on canvas
38.7 x 76.8 cm (15 1/4 x 30 1/4 in.)
Signed, lower left: M.J. Heade
Restricted gift of Mrs. Herbert A. Vance; Americana, Lacy Armour and Roger McCormick endowments; through prior gifts of Dr. and Mrs. R. Gordon Brown, Emily Crane Chadbourne, George F. Harding Collection, Brooks McCormick, and James S. Pennington, 1999.291
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
London, Tate Gallery, "American Sublime," February 20-May 19, 2002; traveled to Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, June 17-August 25, 2002, Minneapolis, Institute of Arts, September 22-November 17, 2002.
Publication History
Sarah E. Kelly, “York Harbor, Coast of Maine,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 30, 1 (2004), pp. 16-17 (color ill.).