Evening Solace
by Homer Dodge Martin (1836–1897)9½ x 12⅛ inches
Initialed lower right: HDM.
Information
Provenance
Private collection, New York, New York
Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York, New York,
Private collection, Houston, Texas, acquired from above, 2014
Artist Biography
American painter most noted for his landscapes and for being one of the first to introduce Impressionism into American painting.
By Tiffany Win
Once hailed the “most poetic of all American landscape painters,” Martin's expressive landscapes are most closely associated with the Hudson River School.
I. Biography
II. Chronology
III. Collections
IV. Exhibitions
V. Memberships
VI. Notes
VII. Suggested Resources
I. Biography
Homer Dodge Martin was born on October 28, 1836 in Albany, New York as the youngest of four children. It is said that he was handed a pencil and paper from twenty months of age, and that as a student, he frequently sketched outside scenes instead of
