The White Rose

Artist Martin Johnson Heade (American, 1819 - 1904)

Datec. 1874–80

MediumOil on artist’s board

DimensionsOverall: 11 15/16 x 10 in. (30.3 x 25.4 cm), frame: 22 5/8 x 20 5/8 x 4 1/4 in. (57.5 x 52.4 x 10.8 cm)

Credit LineBequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer

Object number2019.67

Collections

ClassificationsPainting

Object NamePainting

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

On view

Century

Nineteenth

More Information

Signedbottom left: M J. Heade

Inscribedverso top left label: No. 630 / picture; verso top left: #35229

Exhibition HistoryInaugural Installation: 19th Century American Galleries (109), Palmer Museum of Art, June 1, 2024–present Conversations across the Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, January 7–May 14, 2023 An American Place: Selections from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, January 29–May 1, 2022 Object Lessons: American Still-Life Painting in the Nineteenth Century, Palmer Museum of Art, September 4–December 16, 2018 An Intimate Eye: Selections from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, Palmer Museum of Art, January 18–May 15, 2005 Martin Johnson Heade, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, September 29, 1999–January 16, 2000; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, February 13–May 7, 2000; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, May 28–August 17, 2000 Paintings and Sculpture from Central Pennsylvania Collectors, Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, April 8–June 24, 1984 Painters of the Humble Truth: Masterpieces of American Still Life, Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK, September 27–November 8, 1981; Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, December 8, 1981–January 24, 1982; Baltimore Museum of Art, March 2–April 25, 1982; National Academy of Design, New York, May 18–July 4, 1982 A Private Eye: Fifty Nineteenth-Century American Paintings, Drawings, and Watercolors from the Stebbins Collection, Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY, September 30–November 6, 1977; George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, Springfield, MA, November 22, 1977–January 8, 1978 150 Years of American Still-Life Painting, Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, April 27 – May 16, 1970ProvenancePrivate collection, Connecticut With William Postar and William Young, Boston Theodore E. Stebbins Jr., Branford, CT, 1969 Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, acquired in 1982 from Kennedy Galleries, New York Palmer Museum of Art, bequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer, 2019Published ReferencesJoyce Henri Robinson, "University Park, Pennsylvania—An American Place: Selections from the James & Barbara Palmer Collection," American Art Review 33, no. 4 (2021): 112, 113 (ill., color). "Object Lessons," American Fine Art Magazine 42 (November–December 2018), 100 (ill., color). Joyce Henri Robinson, ed., A Gift From the Heart: American Art from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer (University Park, PA: Palmer Museum of Art, 2013) 2, 17, 18 (ill., color), 19 (fig. 10), 27n19, 138, 187 (ill., color), 188. An Intimate Eye (brochure) (University Park, PA: Palmer Museum of Art, 2005), 6 (ill., color), 13 (no. 37). Patrick McGrady, “Selections from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer,” American Art Review 17 (March–April 2005): 119 (ill., color). Theodore E. Stebbins Jr., The Life and Work of Martin Johnson Heade: A Critical Analysis and Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000), 134, 135 (ill., color, fig. 131), 136, 312 (ill., no. 447). Theodore E. Stebbins Jr., Martin Johnson Heade (exh. cat.) (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1999), 58, 69 (ill., color, no. 34), 192 (no. 34). Olga K. Preisner, Paintings and Sculpture from Central Pennsylvania Collectors (exh. cat.) (University Park, PA: Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, 1984), 12 (no. 79), 47 (ill., no. 79). William H. Gerdts, Painters of the Humble Truth: Masterpieces of American Still Life, 1801–1939 (exh. cat.) (Columbia, MO: Philbrook Art Center, 1981), 126–27 (ill., fig. 6.4). Painters of the Humble Truth: A Catalogue of the Exhibition (brochure) (Tulsa, OK: Philbrook Art Center, 1981), n.p. Carol L. Troyen, A Private Eye: Fifty Nineteenth-Century American Paintings, Drawings, and Watercolors from the Stebbins Collection (exh. cat.) (Huntington, NY: Heckscher Museum, 1977), 62, 63 (ill., no. 27). Theodore E. Stebbins Jr., The Life and Works of Martin Johnson Heade (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1975), 124–25, 145, 254 (ill., no. 211), n.p. (ill., color, pl. 9). William H. Gerdts and Russell Burke, American Still-Life Painting (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971), 91 (ill., fig. 6.4), 96. 150 Years of American Still-Life Painting (exh. cat.) (New York: Coe Kerr Gallery, 1970), 16 (ill., no. 17), 20. Theodore E. Stebbins Jr., “Introducing Martin Johnson Heade,” ARTnews 68 (December 1969): 63.