# Jersey Meadows at Sunset

- By: Martin Johnson Heade (born Lumberville, PA 1819-died St. Augustine, FL 1904)
- Date: ca. 1866
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: 14 1/4 x 30 1/4 in.
- Culture: New Jersey
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, The May Family Collection, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=122825)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/58fa2f0113f4d5e276ed6c13ab750fce.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 began painting Jersey Meadows at Sunset shortly after the end of the Civil War. In it, a meandering stream and a series of haystacks stretch across low, flat marshes, and a lone man at right takes in a moment of rest. The war haunts this seemingly placid landscape: A broken haycart near the center of the foreground calls to mind an artillery mount for a small field cannon, while the rays of the setting sun, reaching upward from the horizon, conjure memories of explosions on a distant battlefield.