Title of Artwork: “Sunlight and Shadow: The Newbury Marshes”
Artwork by Martin Johnson Heade
Year Created 1871-1875
All About Sunlight and Shadow: The Newbury Marshes
Painting by Martin Johnson Heade: The Newbury Marshes was acquired by the National Gallery of Art in 2010 and is a landscape oil on canvas.
Bishop Thomas March Clark may have introduced Heade to the salt marshes at the mouth of the Merrimack River in Newbury and Newburyport, Massachusetts, in 1859.
This early painting of wetlands by Heade, Sunlight and Shadow, can be found among his more than one hundred other works.
According to the National Gallery, “Heade depicted the tides, meteorological phenomena, and other natural forces that shaped the swamp’s appearance and showed how the land was used for hunting, fishing, and the harvesting of naturally occurring salt hay… the painting’s primary motif, sunlight and shadow, seen, for example, in its intricate cloud shadows and the subtle movement from light to dark across the body of the haystack, informs and unites.”
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