Homer Dodge Martin, who had been one…
February 1897 CE
Homer Dodge Martin, who had been one of the first to introduce Impressionism into American painting, dies at sixty in St. Paul, Minnesota on February 12, 1897.
Although never successful within his lifetime, within two years of his death Adirondack Scenery will sell for $5500 and Harp of the Winds (1895) wil be acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
As well as being represented in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Martin's paintings can be found today in the collections of other important American museums including the Addison Gallery of American Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Albany Institute of History and Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Portland Art Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.