Wedding 2005

stamp profile: Heade

posted by alex - July 25, 2005, 1:01 PM


If you're in the United States, you likely noticed 3 Martin Johnson Heade stamps on your invitation. Martin Johnson Heade was an American painter of the Hudson River School. Hudson River school paintings reflect three themes of America in the 19th century: discovery, exploration, and settlement. The paintings also depict the American landscape as a pastoral setting, where human beings and nature coexist peacefully.

Growing up in Detroit, the first art that I fell in love with was the Diego Rivera Mural in the Detroit Museum of Art and the Hudson River School paintings in the collection of Detroit art benefactors Richard and Jane Manoogian. The Hudson River landscape paintings still fill me with a sense of calm joy. I hope you liked the stamps.

(source: Wikipedia)

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