# Newburyport Meadows, in Realism

Martin Johnson Heade painted this in about 1876–81, aged about 54. It is now at The Met in New York.

Our note:

> Haystacks dot the flat salt marshes near Newburyport, Massachusetts, beneath a broad sky. Martin Johnson Heade painted the marshes of the northeastern coast more than a hundred times, fascinated by the way light and weather transformed their level horizons from hour to hour.

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## The work

- Date: ca. 1876–81
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 10 1/2 x 22 in. (26.7 x 55.9 cm)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985.117
- 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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