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“You wake from dreams of doom and.. for a moment.. You know: beyond all the gestures, the only real thing, love’s calm unwavering flame in the half-light of an early dawn.” Dag Hammarskjöld
Artist Profile: Martin Johnson Heade – Painter, Botanist, Explorer.
Martin Johnson Heade was an American painter who lived from 1819 to 1904. He was best known for his luminous still lifes of flowers, birds, and landscapes, particularly from his time in Brazil. Heade was relatively unknown during his lifetime but shot to fame and popularity, in the 20th century for this series of paintings inspired by plants and animal life in South America.
