Individuals >> Martin, Homer Dodge (1836-1897)

Artist.

Although he was filled with Bohemian sensibilities, there is scant evidence that Homer Dodge Martin was a member of Pfaff’s aside from a description of him as a member of the “Pfaff group” that was published in the Saturday Press (Lathrop 832), and the fact that his studio was in the same building as Winslow Homer (Mather). Martin was a self-taught landscape painter whose career began and ended in New York City. As a young man he achieved moderate success, but by the end of his life he was deeply in debt and unable to sell his work. However, as with other great artists, his work became incredibly popular soon after his death. Some of his most well-known pieces are: The Church at Criqueboeuf, Mussel Gatherers, Low Tide--Villerville, Ontario Sand Dunes, Blossoming Trees, The Sun Worshippers, Honfleur Light, Old Manor, and Westchester Hills.

References & Biographical Resources

Lathrop, George Parsons. "The Literary Movement in New York." Harper's New Monthly Magazine. 1886. 813-833. [more about this work]

A painter. Mentioned as a member of the "'Pfaff group,' which assisted in the publication of the Saturday Press. [pages: 832]

Mather, Frank Jewett. "Homer Dodge Martin." Dictionary of American Biography. Base Set. American Council of Learned Societies, 1928-1936. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale, 2006. http://www.galenet.com/servlet/BioRC. [more about this work]

Wilson, James Grant and John Fiske, eds. Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume IV, Lodge-Pickens. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1888. [more about this work]

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