Martin Johnson Heade (190 works)

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Martin Johnson Head was born and raised in the small village of Lumberville, PC. Pennsylvania. He was the eldest son in a large family, the head of which was the owner of a farm and sawmill. The boy took his first drawing lessons from the artist Edward Hicks. After traveling around Europe and spending two years in Rome, Martin presented his first painting at the Philadelphia Academy of Art. This was followed by new travels to England, France and Italy, where the artist continued to improve his skills. Martin Head began holding regular exhibitions of his works only in 1848. Returning to his homeland, Head finally settled in New York, where he rented a studio in a building favored by artists. From 1863 to 1864 the artist travels around Brazil, visited Nicaragua in 1866, and visited Colombia, Panama and Jamaica in 1970. Traveling to these places left an imprint on the artist’s paintings: exotic birds and tropical plants became his favorite subjects. Martin Head was not famous among his contemporaries and was not widely known to the public in the first half of the twentieth century. But the awakening of interest in American art of the 19th century made it possible to recognize the artist as one of the outstanding masters of his time. The works of Martin Johnson Head are kept in private collections and major galleries and museums in the United States.