Martin Johnson Heade (1819–1904) painted two things with obsessive devotion — salt marshes and hummingbirds — and he painted both with a luminosity and intensity that places him among the finest American painters of the 19th century. His marsh scenes, with their dramatic storm-lit skies and horizontal compositions of almost meditative stillness, are among the most distinctive landscapes in American art. His tropical studies of hummingbirds hovering among orchids and passion flowers are jewels of colour and botanical observation. In counted cross stitch, Heade's extraordinary atmospheric colour — those stormy greens and silvers of the marshes, the vivid reds and purples of his tropical studies — translate into designs of unusual beauty and distinctiveness. Browse our Martin Johnson Heade cross stitch kit collection and choose a premium Heade cross stitch kit or download a Heade cross stitch pattern instantly.
