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Two Hummingbirds with Their Young
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Baltimore, MD, United States
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London, United Kingdom
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Turin, Italy
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Mt Airy, MD, United States
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London, United Kingdom
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San Francisco, CA, United States
David Houston
London, United Kingdom
Sohraub
Toronto, Canada
Thilde Wolf
Lund, Sweden
Tom Hart
Providence, RI, United States
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 this piece, 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. 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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