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 19th 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 and traveling, September 29, 1999 – January 16, 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 and traveling, September 27 – November 8, 198; A Private Eye: Fifty Nineteenth-Century American Paintings, Drawings, and Watercolors from the Stebbins Collection, Heckscher Museum, Huntington, N.Y., September 30 – November 6, 1977; George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, Springfield, Mass., November 22, 1977 – January 8, 1978; 150 Years of American Still-Life Painting, Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, April 27 – May 16, 1970. ProvenancePrivate collection, Connecticut With William Postar and William Young, Boston Theodore E. Stebbins Jr., Branford, Conn., 1969 Acquired in 1982 from Kennedy Galleries, New YorkPublished References150 Years of American Still-Life Painting (New York: Coe Kerr Gallery, 1970), 16 (ill., no. 17), 20. An Intimate Eye (2005), 6 (ill., color) Gerdts, William H. and Russell Burke, American Still-Life Painting (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971), 91 (ill., fig. 6.4), 96 Gerdts, William H., Painters of the Humble Truth: Masterpieces of American Still Life, 1801–1939 (Columbia, Mo.: Philbrook Art Center, 1981), 126–27 (ill., fig. 6.4). McGrady, Patrick, “Selections from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer,” American Art Review 17 (March–April 2005): 119 (ill., color). Painters of the Humble Truth: A Catalogue of the Exhibition (brochure) (Tulsa, Okla: Philbrook Art Center, 1981), n.p. Preisner, Olga K., Paintings and Sculpture from Central Pennsylvania Collectors (Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, 1984), 12 (no. 79), 47 (ill., no. 79). Robinson, Joyce Henri et al. A Gift From the Heart: American Art from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013) 2, 17, 18, 19, 27n19, 138, 187, 188 (ill. 18, 187). Robinson, Joyce Henri, "University Park, Pennsylvania | An American Place: Selections from the James & Barbara Palmer Collection," American Art Review, Vol. XXXIII no. 4 (2021): 112, 113 (ill.). Stebbins, Jr., Theodore E., “Introducing Martin Johnson Heade,” ARTnews 68 (December 1969): 63. Stebbins, Jr., Theodore E. The Life and Works of Martin Johnson Heade (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975), 124–25, 145, 254 (ill., no. 211), n.p. (ill., color, pl. 9). Stebbins, Jr., Theodore E., et al., Martin Johnson Heade (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1999), 58, 69 (ill., color, no. 34), 192. Stebbins, Jr., Theodore E., Janet L. Comey, and Karen E. Quinn, The Life and Work of Martin Johnson Heade: A Critical Analysis and Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), 134, 135 (ill., color, fig. 131), 136, 312 (ill., no. 447). Troyen, Carol L., A Private Eye: Fifty Nineteenth-Century American Paintings, Drawings, and Watercolors from the Stebbins Collection (Huntington, N.Y.: Heckscher Museum, 1977), 62, 63 (ill., no. 27)