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Homer Dodge Martin

Homer Dodge Martin (1836 - 1897) was active/lived in New York, Minnesota.  Homer Martin is known for Landscape, coastal view and portrait paintings.

Born in Albany, New York, the same year as Alexander Wyant, on 28 October 1836, Martin forged a career that spanned the Hudson River School style to more of a plein-air style that approximated impressionism.  Popular with the earlier critics, Martin was praised with hyperbole: "his finest canvases looked as if no one but God and he had ever seen the places pictured" (Sherman, 1917, p. 4) but was justly allocated a respectful place in the pantheon of American landscape painters.  Martin was the son of Homer Martin and Sarah Dodge.  Martin's future wife Elizabeth verified that he made drawings as a child (Martin, 1904, pp. 4-5) and a lot of what he learned was self-taught.  Erastus Dow Palmer, the sculptor, recognized Martin's talent and invited him to attend a salon of artists that included George Boughton (1833-1905), William Hart (1823-1894) and James M. Hart (1828-1901).

By 1857, Martin began sending works to the National Academy of Design.  Two years   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 14303 characters.]  Artist bio

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Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Homer Dodge Martin available:    Alexander Helwig Wyant,  Jervis McEntee,  James McDougal Hart,  John Frederick Kensett,  John Francis Murphy,  David Johnson,  Ralph Albert Blakelock,  Henry Ward Ranger,  Hugh Bolton Jones,  George Henry Smillie,  Aaron Draper Shattuck,  William Trost Richards,  William Louis Sonntag Sr,  Jasper Francis Cropsey,  William Hart,  Worthington (Thomas) Whittredge,  Bruce (Robert Bruce) Crane,  John William Casilear,  Dwight William Tryon,  Alfred Thompson Bricher,  Arthur Parton,  William Mason Brown,  Charles Warren Eaton,  Elihu Vedder



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Keywords and Quick Facts for Homer Dodge Martin


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art Method
  • Cartography, Mapmaking, Globes, Topography
  • Easel Painting
  • Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
  • Illustration, Illustrator
  • Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
Art MediaArt StyleArt Subject
  • Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
  • Mountain Views, Mountainscapes
  • Nocturnes, Nightime Scenes
  • Skyscape, Clouds and/or Storms
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Adirondack Mountains
  • Barbizon, France
  • Europe
  • France Before 1900
  • Hudson River Valley, New York
  • Lake George, New York
  • Litchfield, Connecticut
  • Minnesota, Upper Mississippi Before 1900
  • Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
  • White Mountains, New Hampshire
Art Association
  • Boston Art Club
  • Brooklyn Art Association
  • National Academy of Design, Elected Member
  • Society of American Artists, New York
Art Teacher
  • James M. Hart
Art School
  • Kansas City Art Institute, Student
Chronology
  • Early 19th Century Before Civil War
  • Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Art Collection
  • Anna and Frank Hall Collection, Sheldon Gallery, Lincoln
Added Description
  • Landscape Specialty
  • Self Taught, Autodidact
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
  • World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1892-1893
Exhibition of Art Association
  • Boston Art Club-
  • Brooklyn Art Association-
  • Lotos Club
  • National Academy of Design, New York
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
Exhibition of Special Venue, Art Parks
  • Armory Show 1913, New York

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