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Singing Beach, Manchester, Massachusetts
1863
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Beginning in 1859, Martin J. Heade frequented coastal resort areas along the New England seaboard. This view depicts dawn breaking over Singing Beach in Manchester, Massachusetts, about thirty miles north of Boston. Heade combined local landmarks, including Eagle Head Bluff, Kettle Island, and Rock Dundy, to create a less accurate but more picturesque image. Heade gained critical acclaim both in the United States and abroad—as evidenced in this 1873 review in the London Art Journal:
"The landscape artists of America are rapidly coming to the front; already they are the powerful rivals of the British painters, and certainly surpass those of the Continent. . . . There is now another name that we shall add to the lists of great masters . . .that of M. J. Heade."Â
[Art Journal (London), 1873, as cited in Robert G. McIntyre, Martin J. Heade (New York: Pantheon Press, 1948)]
- Artist
- Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904)
- Title
- Singing Beach, Manchester, Massachusetts
- Date
- 1863
- Place of Creation
- United States
- Object Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 20 x 36 in. (50.8 x 91.4 cm); Frame: 27 1/2 x 43 x 2 1/2 in. (69.9 x 109.2 x 6.4 cm)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd
- Accession Number
- 1993.35.12
