$800
Homer Dodge Martin (American, 1836-1897) watercolor depicting a river landscape, framed under glass; measures approximately 18-7/8" x 22-7/8" with a sight image of approximately 9-7/8" x 13-3/4". Signed H D Martin 1896 to lower right. Homer Dodge Martin was born in Albany, New York on October 28, 1836. 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. During the 1860s he spent the summers in the Adirondacks, 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. Martin was elected as associate of the National Academy of Design, New York, in 1868, and a full academician in 1874. From 1882 to 1886, he lived in France, spending much of the time in Normandy, including stays at the Etaples art colony. At Villerville on the Seine, he painted his celebrated Harp of the Winds, now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. By 1897 Martin had returned to New York City; in 1893 he moved to St. Paul, Minnesota where, nearly blind, he painted one of his best-known works, Adirondack Scenery (1895) from memory. He died on February 12, 1897 in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Auctioneer:
Bremoauctions
Date:
2016-11-19
