Martin Johnson Heade
1819 - 1904
THE GREAT FLORIDA SUNSET
Henry Morrison Flagler, St. Augustine, Florida (commissioned from the artist)
Flagler System, Palm Beach, Florida
Flagler College, St. Augustine, Florida
Mrs. Flagler Matthews, Palm Beach, Florida
Sale: Sotheby's New York, May 25, 1988, lot 50, illustrated
Acquired at the above sale by A. Alfred Taubman
St. Augustine, Florida, Hotel Ponce de León
New York, Peridot-Washburn Gallery, Martin Johnson Heade, January 1972, illustrated fig. 3
Palm Beach, Florida, Society of the Four Arts; St. Petersburg, Florida, Museum of Fine Arts, Views of Florida, March-June 1975, no. 14
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, American Light: The Luminist Movement 1850-1875, February-June 1980, p. 117, illustrated fig. 124, p. 118
Palm Beach, Florida, Henry Morrison Flagler Museum; Jacksonville, Florida, Summer Art Gallery, Martin Johnson Heade, February-May 1981, no. 13, illustrated
St. Augustine, Florida, Henry Morrison Flagler Museum (on loan)
Barbara Novak, “Heade at Peridot-Washburn,” Art in America, vol. 60, March-April 1972, pp. 120-21
Henry S. Marks, Who Was Who in Florida, Huntsville, Alabama, 1973, p. 126
Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., The Life and Works of Martin Johnson Heade, New Haven, Connecticut, 1975, no. 268, pp. 161-62, 264, illustrated; also illustrated pl. 6
Kevin J. Avery, American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School, New York, 1987, p. 174
Franklin Kelly, American Paintings from the Manoogian Collection, Washington, D.C., 1989, p. 58
William Gerdts, Art Across America, Two Centuries of Regional Painting, 1710-1920, New York, 1990, vol. II, p. 77, illustrated pl. 2.69, p. 76
David C. Miller, Dark Eden: The Swamp and 19th Century American Culture, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 1990, pp. 13, 15, 172, illustrated fig. 1.3, p. 114; also illustrated in color on the cover
Ann Vileisis, Discovering the Unknown Landscape, Washington, D.C., 1997, jacket illustration
Alan Gussow, A Sense of Place: The Artist and the American Land, Washington, D.C., 1997, pp. 43-45, illustrated
Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Martin Johnson Heade, Boston, Massachusetts, 1999, pp. 50, 123, 189, illustrated fig. 44
Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., The Life and Works of Martin Johnson Heade, New Haven, Connecticut, 2000, no. 284, p. 271, illustrated; also illustrated p. 152
Roberta Smith Favis, Martin Johnson Heade in Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 2003, pp. 54-56, 111, 125n