HOMER DODGE MARTIN (1836-1897)
HOMER DODGE MARTIN (1836-1897)
HOMER DODGE MARTIN (1836-1897)
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HOMER DODGE MARTIN (1836-1897)

Adirondack Lake

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HOMER DODGE MARTIN (1836-1897)
Adirondack Lake
signed 'H. Martin.' and dated twice '1863.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
27 x 48 in. (68.6 x 121.9 cm.)
Painted in 1863.
Provenance
The Manoogian Collection, Taylor, Michigan, by 2004.
Michael Altman Fine Art & Advisory Services, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2008.
Exhibited
Vero Beach, Florida, Vero Beach Art Museum, A Wilder Image Bright: Hudson River School Paintings from the Manoogian Collection, January 31-March 28, 2004, pp. 86-87, no. 17, illustrated.
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, Avery Galleries, Wanderlust: American Artists' Quest for Adventure and Love of Travel, September 25-November 1, 2009, pp. 12-13, no. 2, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

Homer Dodge Martin was born in Albany, New York, in 1836. By 1863, he established a studio in New York, already intimately familiar with the Adirondacks, which captured the imagination of the Hudson River School painters. According to Kevin Sharp, the present work "was not a complete departure from the tradition of [Thomas] Cole, but it does bear a number of the innovations that [John Frederick] Kensett introduced...While Martin's foreground remains solid and agitated with protruding rocks and dense autumn foliage, the lake itself has already become a diffuse reflection...Martin's most direct application of the new idiom was in his treatment of the all but invisible sun, which radiates behind a screen of haze and is defined by only the slightest variation in the otherwise monochrome, yellow sky." (Wilder Image Bright: Hudson River School Paintings from the Manoogian Collection, exhibition catalogue, Vero Beach, Florida, 2004, p. 87)

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