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The Artist Project

The Artist Project: Alexis Rockman

Artist Alexis Rockman reflects on Martin Johnson Heade’s Hummingbird and Passionflowers in this episode of The Artist Project.
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From March 2015 to June 2016, we invited 120 artists—local, national, and global—to choose individual works of art or galleries that sparked their imaginations. In this online series, artists reflect on what art is, what inspires them from across 5,000 years of art, and in so doing, they reveal the power of a museum and The Met.

"This picture is a time capsule and almost a heartbreaking artifact . . ."

Artist Alexis Rockman reflects on Martin Johnson Heade's "Hummingbird and Passionflowers" in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.

About the Artist
Alexis Rockman, born in 1962, is an American painter.

Alexis Rockman (American, born 1962)

Host and Vector, 1996

Oil on wood panel; 84 1/16 × 72 in. (213.5 × 182.9 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the Nye Family (2002.1) © Alexis Rockman

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Art Mentioned

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Hummingbird and Passionflowers, Martin Johnson Heade American, Oil on canvas, American
Hummingbird and Passionflowers
Martin Johnson Heade
ca. 1875–85
The White Captive, Erastus Dow Palmer American, Marble, American
The White Captive
Erastus Dow Palmer
1857–58; carved 1858–59