Homer Dodge Martin

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Homer Dodge Martin

Homer Dodge Martin (October 28, 1836 - February 2, 1897) was an American artist, particularly known for his landscapes. Examples of Martin's work are in many other important American museums. .

Contents 1 Biography 2 Gallery 3 References 4 Further reading 5 External links

Biography

Martin was born in Albany, New York on October 28, 1836.^[1] A pupil for a short time of William Hart, his earlier work was closely aligned with the Hudson River School. He was elected as associate of the National Academy of Design, New York, in 1868, and a full academician in 1874. During a trip to Europe in 1876 he was captivated by the Barbizon school, 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 Normandy, including stays at the Etaples art colony. His work there included a topographical view of the harbour 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.
He died on February 2, 1897 in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Gallery

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  Normandy Coast (c. 1884)
  
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  Effect of Trees (Between 1876 and 1882)
  
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  The harbour at Étaples (1884)
  

References

1. ^ 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.

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

Further reading

• E. G. Martin, Homer Martin, a Remininiscence (New York, 1904)
• Samuel Isham, History of American Painting (New York, 1905)
• F. J. Mather, Homer Martin, Poet in Landscape (New York, 1912)
• F. F. Sherman, "Landscape of Homer Dodge Martin," in Art in America, volume iii (New York, 1915)
• D. H. Carroll, Fifty-Eight Paintings by Homer Martin (New York, 1913), reproductions