York Harbor, Coast of Maine

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York Harbor, Coast of Maine, 1877. Oil on canvas.

Oil on canvas · 38.7 × 76.8 cm · Art Institute of Chicago

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Museum title: York Harbor, Coast of Maine
Artist: Martin Johnson Heade (American, 1819–1904)
Date: 1877
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 38.7 × 76.8 cm (15 1/4 × 30 1/4 in.)
Credit line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Herbert A. Vance; Americana, Lacy Armour and Roger McCormick endowments; through prior gifts of Dr. and Mrs. R. Gordon Brown, Emily Crane Chadbourne, George F. Harding Collection, Brooks McCormick, and James S. Pennington
Image license: CC0 1.0 · Public domain
Museum record: Art Institute of Chicago

Artist’s life 1819–1904

Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.