Homer Dodge Martin

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Homer Dodge Martin
St. Paul, Minnesota
NationalityAmerican
Known forpainter
SpouseElizabeth Gilbert Davis Martin
ElectedNational Academy of Design

Homer Dodge Martin (October 28, 1836 – February 12, 1897) was an American artist, particularly known for his

landscape paintings. Examples of Martin's work are in many important American museums.[2]

Biography

Martin was born in Albany, New York on October 28, 1836, the fourth and youngest son of Homer Martin and Sarah Dodge.[3][4] A pupil for a short time of William Hart, his earlier work was closely aligned with the Hudson River School.[5] Other Albany painters of his acquaintance included George Boughton, and Edward Gay.[4]

During the 1860s he spent the summers in the

Catskills and White Mountains, and painted landscapes from the sketches he made there at his studio in New York City's Tenth Street Studio Building.[6]

On June 25, 1861 he married Elizabeth Gilbert Davis, also of Albany.[4]

Martin was elected as associate of the

Impressionists
, and thereafter his painting style gradually became darker, moodier, and more loosely brushed.

From 1882 to 1886, he lived in France, spending much of the time in

Etaples art colony. His work there included a topographical view of the harbor in which a wooden-hulled ship is being built in the distance and a steam ship is seen moored on the quays. The rather more atmospheric Cottage in the Forest captures the effect of the parting sun on the dune landscape. At Villerville on the Seine, he painted his celebrated Harp of the Winds, now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
.

By 1887 Martin had returned to New York City.

St. Paul, Minnesota, where he had relatives.[7]
There, nearly blind, he painted one of his best-known works, Adirondack Scenery (1895) from memory. He died on February 12, 1897, in St. Paul. Although never successful within his lifetime, within two years of his death Adirondack Scenery sold for $5500 and Harp of the Winds (1895) was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Collections

As well as being represented in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Martin's paintings can be found in the collections of other important American museums including the

Albany Institute of History and Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Portland Art Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
.

Gallery

References

  1. ^ "Homer Dodge Martin". American National Biography Online. Oxford University Press. 2000. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
  2. ISBN 978-0-300-18733-5
    . Retrieved 15 February 2013.
  3. ^ George Derby, James Terry White (1899). The National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time. J. T. White.
  4. ^ a b c Martin, Elizabeth Gilbert (Davis) (1904). Homer Martin: A Reminiscence. New York: William Macbeth. pp. 3, 9, 12.
  5. ^ a b  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Martin, Homer Dodge". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 794.
  6. ^ "A Finding Aid to the James Stillman letters relating to Homer Dodge Martin, 1882–1898". Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
  7. ^
    ISBN 0870994395
    .

Further reading

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