Tropical sunsets to warm one’s heart . . . spending decades in the rain forests of Brazil painting hummingbirds and orchids Martin Johnson Heade painted sunsets for the stars to sink into even in Newburyport, Massachusetts a place about as untropical as they come. American, 1819-1904.

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"Sunset over the Marsh." ca. 1876-1882.
“Sunset over the Marsh.” ca. 1876-1882. Oil on canvas. Image © Heritage Auctions. Artwork in the public domain in the United States because the painter has been dead over 70 years. via https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil:Sunset_over_the_Marsh-Martin_Johnson_Heade.jpg.
"Twilight." ca. 1886.
“Twilight.” ca. 1886. Oil on Canvas. Collection of the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. In the public domain in the United States because the artist has been dead over 100 years. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Twilight_by_Martin_Johnson_Heade,_c._1886,_High_Museum_of_Art.jpg
"The Great Florida Sunset." 1887.
“The Great Florida Sunset.” 1887. Oil on canvas. In the public domain in the United States because the artist has been dead over 100 years. via http://img.wikioo.org/ADC/Art-ImgScreen-1.nsf/O/A-8LSLGH/$FILE/Martin_johnson_heade-the_great_florida_sunset.Jpg.

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On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.

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