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HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL
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Storm King on the Hudson
Homer Dodge Martin
(1836-1897)
Oil on canvas, 1862
AIHA Collection: Gift of the estate of Anna Vandenburg |
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Born and raised in Albany, Homer Dodge Martin was
encouraged to pursue an artistic career by Albany sculptor, Erastus Dow Palmer
(1817-1904). During the early 1860s, Martin spent his summers in the Catskills,
Adirondacks or White Mountains and composed expansive lake and mountain views
such as this in his New York City studio each winter.
Martin's early luminist style, as seen in this view of Storm King Mountain in
the lower Hudson Valley, is evidence of his admiration for the work of John
Frederick Kensett. A transitional figure in American landscapes during the
second half of the 19th century, Homer Dodge Martin links the painters of the
Hudson River School to the American followers of the French Barbizon artists and
eventually Impressionism.
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