Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001613York Harbor, Coast of Maine
Inscriptions
Signed, lower left: M.J. Heade
Provenance
William Evans II, Barneveld, New York, and by descent, to 1993; Hollis Taggert, New York, to 1994; Michael Altman, New York, 1995; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1999.
Exhibition history
London, Tate Gallery, American Sublime, Feb. 20–May 19, 2002; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, June 17–Aug. 25, 2002, Minneapolis, Institute of Arts, Sept. 22–Nov. 17, 2002.
Publications
Sarah E. Kelly, “York Harbor, Coast of Maine,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 30, 1 (2004), 16–17 (color ill.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Martin Johnson Heade (American, 1819–1904)
- Date
- 1877
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 38.7 × 76.8 cm (15 1/4 × 30 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Place
- York Harbor
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by 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
- Accession no.
- 1999.291
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