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The quietly evocative composition and nuanced coloration make this painting a superlative illustration of the artist’s approach to capturing the slower, more muted cadences of nature, rhythms characterized by the tidewater’s gradual ebb and flow. The painting’s exaggerated horizontality, low horizon line, meandering stream leading into the composition, and haystacks dotting the horizon like chess pieces on a board are hallmarks of Heade’s marsh scenes. In these works pictorial elements are distilled and arranged to conform to a realistic yet abstract and conceptual geometry, and narrative detail is stripped away in favor of a fundamental quietude where atmospheric effects prevail, both isolating and unifying individual forms.\n","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"[Sotheby's, New York, December 4, 1986, lot 45]; Charles Sterling, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Richard Nash, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; [Island Weiss Gallery, New York]; [Hirschl &amp; Adler Galleries, New York]; Walter B. and Marcia F. Goldfarb, Portland, Maine; estate of Walter B. Goldfarb, 2021; [sold through Schoelkopf Gallery, New York]; puchased by the Princeton University Art Museum, February 2023.","remarks":null}],"datebegin":1866,"sortnumber":"2023   24","published_date":"2026-02-11 15:01:09.949952","objectid":141120,"dimensions":"30.5 × 61 cm (12 × 24 in.)","on_view":true}