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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 Catksills, 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 seem 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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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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