Dusky Seaside Sparrow Masterpiece Places Martin Johnson Heade Amongst Greatest Naturalists

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This book set out to educate and inspire art and nature admirers through the example of Martin Johnson Heade. Heade is best known as a landscape painter, but when taking a deeper dive into his other pursuits, one can see how his interest in the scientific connected to his artistic practice. Most of all, Heade showed a preoccupation with the Dusky Seaside Finch, also known as the Dusky Seaside Sparrow, and even created his own rendition of the species. The case of Martin Johnson Heade proves that we should consider how the fields of art and science are linked.