Martin Johnson Heade letter to Frederic Edwin Church
name: label: Creator
content: Heade, Martin Johnson, 1819-1904
label: Names
content: Church, Frederic Edwin, 1826-1900
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated by William Sandrik and Dr. Martin Stampien, Jr., 1992. Sandrik purchased the letter at a philatelic show in Washington, D.C., 1992.
creator: label: Creator
content: Heade, Martin Johnson, 1819-1904
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Item ((6 p.))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1868
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.headmart2
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 5050 (fr. 981-993) available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Writing from New York, April 27, 1868 (continued May 6 and June 16), Heade mentions Church's picture owned by Mr. De Forest, his own painting of a storm in the current exhibition at National Academy of Design, and that his work is selling well in Chicago. He writes how his salt marsh painting came to have a sun very similar to Church's style; that Charles Gould was "black-balled" at the Union League but Heade is now a member because he wants to use their gallery space; his work on a "Spring picture," but the weather is not cooperating; Cincinnati is planning its first big exhibition in ten years; the art scene in Chicago is thriving; Robbins needs a studio and has designs on Heade's; and that he saw Tuckerman. Also included is a typescript of the letter.