Acknowledgements
This online exhibition spotlights five major works by Martin Johnson Heade held in the Yale University Art Gallery collection and integrates materials from the Yale University Library collections, including the Sterling Memorial Library, Manuscripts and Archives, Marx Science and Social Science Library, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, Yale Library Internet Resource, and the Paul Mellon Center at the Yale Center for British Art. Other works and artifacts were drawn from the American Museum of Natural History, Musuem of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Museum of Arts and Sciences, Daytona Beach.
Thank you to Professor Allison Caplan, Professor Jennifer Raab, Dr. Mark Mitchell, and Eliot Chang for supporting my research and writing process, and a special thank you to Tracy MacMath and Trip Kirkpatrick for guidance and supervision during the development of this online exhibition through Yale University Library.
Curated by: Nithya Guthikonda (’26), B.S. History of Art and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Nithya is a junior in Pauli Murray College at Yale University. She is interested in research that integrates art historical and biological perspectives, and looks forward to sharing this cross-disciplinary exhibition with the university and greater community.