Apple Blossoms
Martin Johnson Heade (American, 1819–1904)
1873
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 35.8 x 30.7 cm (14 1/8 x 12 1/16 in.)
- Culture
- America
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, American Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
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.
