Cleveland Museum of Art
Orchid Blossoms
Martin Johnson Heade
- Date
- 1873
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Culture
- America
- Department
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
At the time he created this work, Martin Johnson Heade had made three trips to Central and South America. As an outgrowth of these experiences, he made a large number of paintings of birds and flowers, especially orchids, in a tropical setting. Ten years after painting Orchid Blossoms , artist Martin Johnson Heade married at the age of 64.
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