{"id":4091,"date":"2025-03-19T15:30:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T19:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/?p=4091"},"modified":"2025-03-24T17:05:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T21:05:32","slug":"martin-johnson-heade-orchid-and-hummingbirds-near-a-mountain-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/martin-johnson-heade-orchid-and-hummingbirds-near-a-mountain-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Johnson Heade Orchid and Hummingbirds near a Mountain Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.kadence-column4091_c346c9-e7{max-width:100%;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;}.wp-block-kadence-column.kb-section-dir-horizontal:not(.kb-section-md-dir-vertical)>.kt-inside-inner-col>.kadence-column4091_c346c9-e7{-webkit-flex:0 1 100%;flex:0 1 100%;max-width:unset;margin-left:unset;margin-right:unset;}.kadence-column4091_c346c9-e7 > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column4091_c346c9-e7 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column4091_c346c9-e7 > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column4091_c346c9-e7 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column4091_c346c9-e7 > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kadence-column4091_c346c9-e7 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column4091_c346c9-e7{position:relative;}@media all and (min-width: 1025px){.wp-block-kadence-column.kb-section-dir-horizontal>.kt-inside-inner-col>.kadence-column4091_c346c9-e7{-webkit-flex:0 1 100%;flex:0 1 100%;max-width:unset;margin-left:unset;margin-right:unset;}}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column4091_c346c9-e7 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.wp-block-kadence-column.kb-section-sm-dir-vertical:not(.kb-section-sm-dir-horizontal):not(.kb-section-sm-dir-specificity)>.kt-inside-inner-col>.kadence-column4091_c346c9-e7{max-width:100%;-webkit-flex:1;flex:1;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;}.kadence-column4091_c346c9-e7 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column kadence-column4091_c346c9-e7 mobile-section\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"774\" height=\"114\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/01\/lynch-logo.png\" alt=\"Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch Collection\" class=\"wp-image-2922\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/01\/lynch-logo.png 774w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/01\/lynch-logo-300x44.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/01\/lynch-logo-768x113.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 774px) 100vw, 774px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-4091_2561e4-9b .kt-block-spacer{height:60px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-4091_2561e4-9b .kt-divider{border-top-width:1px;height:1px;border-top-color:#f1f1f1;width:100%;border-top-style:solid;}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-4091_2561e4-9b .kt-divider{width:100%!important;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-4091_2561e4-9b\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\" \/><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>Martin Johnson Heade (1819\u20131904)<\/strong><br><em>Orchid and Hummingbirds near a Mountain Lake<\/em>, c. 1875\u201390<br><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oil on canvas<br>McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch Collection, 2022.54<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"916\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/heade.jpg\" alt=\"Orchid and Hummingbirds near a Mountain Lake\" class=\"wp-image-4092\" style=\"width:1202px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/heade.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/heade-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/heade-1024x782.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/heade-768x586.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-not-stacked-on-mobile has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"background-color:#f1f1f1\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>Oliver Wunsch<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>Assistant Professor, Art History<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/wunsch-6.jpg\" alt=\"Oliver Wunsch\" class=\"wp-image-4093\" style=\"width:78px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/wunsch-6.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/wunsch-6-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"652\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/heade-orchids2-1024x652.jpg\" alt=\"Hummingbirds and Orchids\" class=\"wp-image-4094\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/heade-orchids2-1024x652.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/heade-orchids2-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/heade-orchids2-768x489.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/heade-orchids2.jpg 1049w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Hummingbirds and Orchids<\/em>, c. 1875\u201390. Oil on canvas, Detroit Institute of Arts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>Inspired by Heade\u2019s travels in Brazil during the 1860s, this painting was equally shaped by the art market that he encountered upon returning to the United States. In a competitive field of American landscape painting that was dominated by better-known contemporaries such as Frederic Edwin Church (1826\u20131900), Heade needed to find ways to stand out.<sup>1<\/sup>&nbsp;Idiosyncratic views of foreign flora and fauna provided him with a commercially viable path. Heade\u2019s tropical subject matter differentiated him from competitors, but what truly distinguished him was a compositional innovation: juxtaposing detailed studies of orchids and hummingbirds with distant vistas, he created a radical separation between foreground and background. The combination of micro and macro scales allowed Heade to incorporate the conventions of natural history illustration and landscape painting into something that transcended both traditions, turning birds and plants into dramatic actors on an exotic stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though set in nature, these scenes were carefully constructed products of the studio. The orchid in this painting, for example, was transposed from Heade\u2019s stock repertoire of plant studies, which he repeatedly inserted into compositions either by tracing or through another means of mechanical transfer.<sup>2<\/sup>&nbsp;Heade\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Hummingbirds and Orchids<\/em>&nbsp;in the Detroit Institute of Arts (see image) contains a blossom that matches this one in almost every detail. In fact, the same orchid is present in at least twenty-one of Heade\u2019s paintings\u2014a number that testifies to the commercial success of these works (which may explain the artist\u2019s need for expedient production methods).<sup>3<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ub-divider ub_divider ub-divider-orientation-horizontal\" id=\"ub_divider_ff7a7ddb-ca77-4d9b-98fe-c00c24b02e1e\"><div class=\"ub_divider_wrapper\" style=\"position: relative; margin-bottom: 2px; width: 100%; height: 2px; \" data-divider-alignment=\"center\"><div class=\"ub_divider_line\" style=\"border-top: 2px solid #ccc; margin-top: 2px; \"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>1. For Heade\u2019s efforts to establish a market for himself while in the shadow of Church, see Maggie M. Cao, \u201cHeade\u2019s Hummingbirds and the Ungrounding of Landscape,\u201d&nbsp;<em>American Art<\/em>&nbsp;25, no. 3 (2011): 48\u201375.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. Karen E. Quinn, \u201cPassion Flowers,\u201d in&nbsp;<em>Martin Johnson Heade<\/em>, ed. Theodore E. Stebbins (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1999), 113; Theodore E. Stebbins,&nbsp;<em>The Life and Work of Martin Johnson Heade: A Critical Analysis and Catalogue Raisonn\u00e9<\/em>&nbsp;(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), 94.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. Quinn, \u201cPassion Flowers,\u201d 113.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-not-stacked-on-mobile has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"background-color:#f1f1f1\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>John McCoy<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>Assistant Director, McMullen Museum<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/mccoyj-1.jpg\" alt=\"John McCoy\" class=\"wp-image-4097\" style=\"width:78px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/mccoyj-1.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/mccoyj-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/heade-sketch-680x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Bird sketch from Heade\u2019s Brazilian Sketchbook and Journal\" class=\"wp-image-4095\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/heade-sketch-680x1024.jpg 680w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/heade-sketch-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/heade-sketch-768x1156.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/heade-sketch.jpg 970w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">From&nbsp;<em>Heade\u2019s Brazilian Sketchbook and Journal<\/em>, 1865. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1010\" height=\"742\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/heade-passion.jpg\" alt=\"Passion Flowers and Hummingbirds\" class=\"wp-image-4096\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/heade-passion.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/heade-passion-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/heade-passion-768x564.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1010px) 100vw, 1010px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Passion Flowers and Hummingbirds<\/em>, c. 1870\u201390. Oil on canvas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>This painting is one in a series of hummingbird and orchid paintings that Heade produced between about 1875 and 1890. Painted more than a decade after his trip to Brazil in 1863, Heade pairs the flowers and birds in an imagined tableau synthesized from earlier sketches (see image), memory, and perhaps external sources. In these fanciful paintings, Heade is free to depict his subjects in a variety of lively poses and to fill the scenes with luminous and saturated color.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The orchid is a ruby-lipped&nbsp;<em>Cattleya<\/em>.&nbsp;<em>Cattleya<\/em>&nbsp;is a genus of tropical South American orchids that are epiphytic (growing on other plants). They are not parasites, however, deriving their nutrients from the air, rain, and dust that fall on them. Like the hummingbirds, the orchids \u201ctravel\u201d by flight, their microscopic seeds floating from tree to tree. This orchid variety is known for its large, showy flowers. Christopher Clark, associate professor of evolution, ecology, and organismal biology at University of California Riverside, identifies the top bird as possibly a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ebird.org\/species\/bltman1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">black-throated mango<\/a>&nbsp;and the bottom as a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ebird.org\/species\/bkefai1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">black-eared fairy<\/a>. Heade probably mistakenly thought the two were from the same species. Clark also notes that while Heade paints the birds with six tail feathers on either side, all hummingbirds actually have two sets of five.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Heade painted many dozens of similar scenes, most often with varieties of&nbsp;<em>Cattleya<\/em>&nbsp;orchids, but also several featuring passion flowers (see photo). In these scenes he portrays tropical jungles emerging from gray mist which all but obscures the mountains. These atmospheric effects emphasize the depth of view, setting off the vibrancy of the birds and flowers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-4091_1e8a0d-85 .kt-block-spacer{height:60px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-4091_1e8a0d-85 .kt-divider{border-top-width:1px;height:1px;border-top-color:#f1f1f1;width:100%;border-top-style:solid;}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-4091_1e8a0d-85 .kt-divider{width:100%!important;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-4091_1e8a0d-85\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\" \/><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"383\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/01\/mcmullen-logo-gold-1024x383.png\" alt=\"Logo Gold\" class=\"wp-image-2910\" style=\"width:569px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/01\/mcmullen-logo-gold-1024x383.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/01\/mcmullen-logo-gold-300x112.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/01\/mcmullen-logo-gold-768x287.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/01\/mcmullen-logo-gold.png 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Johnson Heade (1819\u20131904)Orchid and Hummingbirds near a Mountain Lake, c. 1875\u201390 Oil on canvasMcMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Carolyn A. and Peter S. 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