HOMER DODGE MARTIN, Fire Island, Hudson River School, Beach Landscape View

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Homer Dodge Martin (1836-1897)Fire Island , 1882Oil on canvas8 x 14 1/8 inchesSigned and dated lower left: " H. Martin 1882"ProvenanceAn International CorporationSotheby's New York, American Art, March 20, 1996, Lot 76The Jordan-Volpe Gallery, New York, before 2003M. Anthony Greene, Atlanta, GeorgiaLeslie Hindman Auctioneers, Chicago, Atlanta Interiors, December 11, 2018, Lot 3Homer Dodge Martin was one of the first artists to introduce Impressionism into American painting. He is known for his melancholy, poetic landscapes, with subtle color and treatment of light. Martin was part of a generation or group of artists whose works were transitional between the Hudson River School and the Barbizon group as it was called in France. This group crossed over from the early Hudson River School, with its attraction to the spectacular vistas of the American landscape, to the Barbizons' rendering of landscape in a more straightforward, anti-classical manner. Returning to the United States, he was of considerable influence on the artist Nicholas Richard Brewer, another proponent of the Barbizon style, who met Martin in the early 1880s. Martin's works often depicted Nature's unforgiving and cold characteristics.Martin was born in 1836 in Albany, New York and as a young man worked as a carpenter and architect. In 1852, he turned to painting, having read more
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