# Apple Blossoms

- By: Martin Johnson Heade (American, 1819–1904)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1915.687)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1915.687/1915.687_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.