# Approaching Thunder Storm, in Realism

Martin Johnson Heade painted this in 1859, aged 40. It is now at The Met in New York.

Our note:

> An inky storm cloud spreads over still, black water, while a fisherman sits on the shore with his dog, watching, and a single white sail glows against the darkness.

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## The work

- Date: 1859
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 28 x 44in. (71.1 x 111.8cm) Framed: 42 1/2 × 58 3/8 × 5 in. (108 × 148.3 × 12.7 cm)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.160
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Martin Johnson Heade](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/martin-johnson-heade), 1819–1904

Heade travelled restlessly and worked in many genres, but is best known for three subjects: the salt marshes of New England and New Jersey, with haystacks under changing skies; hummingbirds and orchids, which he studied on journeys to Brazil and Central America; and, in later…

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