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.

Biography

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

On June 25, 1861 he married Elizabeth Gilbert Davis, also of Albany. 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 Addison Gallery of American Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Albany Institute of History and Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Portland Art Museum, the Yager Museum of Art & Culture and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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File:The Iron Mine - Homer Dodge Martin - Smithsonian American Art Museum.jpg|The Iron Mine, Port Henry, New York, (1862) oil on canvas mounted on fiberboard, in the Smithsonian American Art Museum

File:EveningThamesHDMartin.jpg|Evening on the Thames (c. 1876)

File:Brooklyn Museum - Effect of Trees - Homer Dodge Martin - overall.jpg|Effect of Trees (Between 1876 and 1882)

File:Martin Harbour.jpg|The harbour at Étaples (1884)

File:Ausable Valley and Mt. Marcy-Homer Dodge Martin-FARL36291.jpg|Ausable Valley and Mt. Marcy (1866), oil on canvas by Homer Dodge Martin found at the Frick Art Research Library Photoarchive

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References

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
  • View on the Seine: Harp of the Winds Metropolitan Museum of Art Website