Approaching Thunder Storm 1859 Martin Johnson Heade American Heade became a good friend of the acclaimed landscape painter Frederic Church (1826-1900), but he worked on the periphery of the Hudson River School. He specialized not in dramatic wilderness subjects, as many of the school did, but preferred more prosaic marshlands and coastal settings. Even when he painted storms, as here, he portrayed not the actual tempest, but its tense preamble of blackening sky and eerily illumined terrain. This painting was based on a sketch of an approaching storm that Heade witnessed on Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay about 1858. The image became the basis for a more elaborate and synthetic version of the subject painted in 1868 (Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas). Listen to experts illuminate this artwork's story Listen Play or pause #4360. Approaching Thunder Storm, Part 1 Play or pause #4572. Approaching Thunder Storm, Part 2 Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies We're sorry, the transcript f

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Approaching Thunder Storm 1859 Martin Johnson Heade American Heade became a good friend of the acclaimed landscape painter Frederic Church (1826-1900), but he worked on the periphery of the Hudson River School. He specialized not in dramatic wilderness subjects, as many of the school did, but preferred more prosaic marshlands and coastal settings. Even when he painted storms, as here, he portrayed not the actual tempest, but its tense preamble of blackening sky and eerily illumined terrain. This painting was based on a sketch of an approaching storm that Heade witnessed on Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay about 1858. The image became the basis for a more elaborate and synthetic version of the subject painted in 1868 (Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas). Listen to experts illuminate this artwork's story Listen Play or pause #4360. Approaching Thunder Storm, Part 1 Play or pause #4572. Approaching Thunder Storm, Part 2 Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies We're sorry, the transcript f

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