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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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