Approaching Thunder Storm

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

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Artist: Martin Johnson Heade (1819–1904)
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
Classification: Painting
Department: The American Wing
Credit line: Gift of Erving Wolf Foundation and Mr. and Mrs. Erving Wolf, in memory of Diane R. Wolf, 1975
Accession no.: 1975.160

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