Normandy Landscape

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HOMER DODGE MARTIN (1836-1897)
Normandy Landscape
signed and dated 'H.D. Martin/1894' (lower right)
oil on canvas
10 ½ x 15 in. (26.7 x 38.1 cm.)
Painted in 1894.

Provenance

William Macbeth Gallery, New York.
Chester Johnson Galleries, Chicago, Illinois.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1924.

Literature

S.E. Strickler, The Toledo Museum of Art: American Paintings, Toledo, Ohio, 1979, pp. 81, 164, pl. 98, illustrated.
J.G. Ravin, "The Visual Difficulties of Selected Artists and Limits of Ophthalmological Care During the 19th and Early 20th Centuries," Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society, vol. CVI, 2008, p. 405, fig. 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, primarily practicing landscape painting. The present work was likely painted based upon sketches made during Martin's extended stay in France in the 1880s.

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