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Jungle Orchids and Hummingbirds
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David Houston
London, United Kingdom
Rich M
Mt Airy, MD, United States
George Webster
London, United Kingdom
Schmudde
Turin, Italy
Mark W
Baltimore, MD, United States
Sohraub
Toronto, Canada
Simon
London, United Kingdom
Tom Hart
Providence, RI, United States
Todd Pearson
San Francisco, CA, United States
Thilde Wolf
Lund, Sweden
In 1863, Martin Johnson Heade, an aspiring naturalist, made the first of three trips to Brazil to paint the brilliantly colored hummingbird, creating at least forty-five canvases, including Two Hummingbirds with Their Young, which documents a shimmering family of Sappho Comet hummingbirds. Although Heade’s plan to publish an illustrated book on the birds was never realized, the artist’s fascination continued unabated. Beginning about 1871 and continuing for over thirty years, he painted a series of pictures that combined hummingbirds with living orchids, such as this one. Drawing on his own earlier experience as a sometime-ornithologist, and using living orchids for the first time as a painter’s subject, Heade created a unique American genre.
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