Martin Johnson Heade

romanticism

Heade Paintings 1819 - 1904 USA, Hudson River School Painter

Orchids and Hummingbird, c.1875-1883

Oil on canvas, 14 1/8 x 22 1/8 inches (35.97 x 56.29 cm)

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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OIL PAINTING: Orchids and Hummingbird, c.1875-1883
Heade decided to combine his interest in hummingbirds with his love of orchids (an interest that he shared with many other prominent Americans, whose orchidaria proliferated in mid-century and after). In 1871, he exhibited the first of a series of hummingbird and orchid paintings that he would continue developing until the end of his life. Orchid and Two Hummingbirds dates from early in this series. Like many of Heade~dq~s other orchid and hummingbird paintings, it combines a single flower with a pair of hummingbirds. As much as any painting in the series this painting- Orchids and Hummingbird encloses its subject in the riotous vegetation and pervasive moisture of the tropical landscape. Buds, vines, roots and leaves crowd the painting~dq~s margins, almost growing past the framing edges to trompe l~dq~oeil effect, so that the viewer feels "as if the painter had climbed into the trees to witness a scene both intimate and grand, one that is highly charged