Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00009625Apple Blossoms
About the Artwork
Martin Johnson Heade painted approximately 150 floral still life compositions during his long career. In this relatively stark example, a single branch of apple blossoms is propped on a tabletop and supported by an undecorated wall.
Inscriptions
signed lower left: MJ Heade 1873
Provenance
Hinman B. Hurlbut, Cleveland, OH, by 1878; his bequest to CMA, 1915.
Exhibition history
Exhibition of the Month: Flowers in Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 6-June 5, 1952). Horticulture Motifs in Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 9-April 24, 1955). Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Martin Johnson Heade (American, 1819–1904)
- Date
- 1873
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 35.8 x 30.7 cm (14 1/8 x 12 1/16 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection
- Accession no.
- 1915.687
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