IHT PAINTINGS Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2013 http://archive.org/details/fiftyeightpaintiOOcarr FIFTY- EIGHT PAINTINGS BY HOMER D. MARTIN described by Dana H. Carroll New York PRIVATELY PRINTED MCMXIII Copyrigkt, 191 3, hy Frederic FaircKild Sherman CONTENTS CONTENTS NO. TITLE PAGE 1 Saranac Lake 8 2 Lake George from Bolton . . . . . 13 3 The Iron Mine, Port Henry, N, Y. . . 14 4 On Lake Ontario 19 5 The Giant of tke Valley 20 6 An Adirondack Lake 25 7 Winter in Normandy 26 8 Across the Lake 26 9 New Hampshire Landscape 31 10 Long Lake 31 1 1 Salt Meadows 32 12 Autumn on the Susquehanna .... 32 13 Ontario Sand Dunes 37 14 Late Autumn 38 15 Early Spring 38 16 Raquette Lake 43 17 A Glimpse of the Sea 44 18 Headwaters of the Hudson 49 19 Autumn in the Adirondacks .... 50 20 Richmond on Thames 55 21 Saranac Lake 5b 22 Windsor Castle 61 23 LAnse St. Etienne, Saguenay .... 62 24 LAnse aux Basses Pierres 62 25 Blossoming Trees 67 26 On the Seine 68 27 The Dunes 73 28 The Moonht Pond— Honfleur .... 73 29 Normandy Landscape 74 NO. TITLE PAGE 30 The Lighthouse — Honfleur 79 31 Ruby Strong — Normandy 7^ 32 Sand Dunes, Lake Ontario 80 33 Low Tide, Honfleur 85 34 Evening on the Seine 86 35 On the Seine 91 36 On the Hudson 92 37 A Forest Brook 97 38 Coa^ Meadows, St. Sauveur .... 98 39 Landscape 98 40 An Adirondack Lake — Lake Sanford . . 103 41 Lower Ausable Pond 104 42 December Morning in Normandy . . . 109 43 Low Tide — Villerville . . . . . .110 44 Lake George 115 45 Crepuscule — Montvilhers 116 46 The Sea at Villerville 121 47 Golden Sands 121 48 The Meadow Brook 122 49 The Sun Worshippers 127 50 South Side of Long Island 128 51 Criqueboeuf Church 133 52 Normandy Farm 134 53 On the Mississippi 139 54 Newport Neck 140 55 A Newport Landscape 145 56 A Di^ant View of Caen 146 57 The Brook 151 58 Normandy Trees . . . . .. . . .152 FIFTY. EIGHT PAINTINGS BY HOMER MARTIN (I) SARANAC LAKE Height, 52 inches; width, 53 inches TKe broad and placid waters of the lake fill the fore= ground. The sK ores, low beyond tbe di^ant fartber end, wbere tbe lake is narrow, spread out on eitber band as tbe lake widens, and vanisb firom tbe picfture near tbe middle di^ance. Tbe season is autumn and tbe trees around tbe lake's borders are a ricb brown, warming toward red. On tbe rigbt tbe trees, growing tbickly in tbeir fore^, rise on low mounds, and tbe taller ones raise tbeir beads above tbe fore^^mass like towering sentinels . On tbe left, dense gro wtbs of trees line tbe border of tbe water, a few tall pines being conspicuous near at band. Fartber back along tbe left, above tbe fore^ at tbe water's edge, tbe lofty moun^ tain peaks arise, bere brown, yonder paHng to a dis? tant bluisbsgreen. But above all is tbe wondrous sky — one of tbe fine^ ever put in paint, it seems . In won^ derful aerial perspective are tbe tumbling, rolling, floating masses — soHd, yet ligbt as tbeir sub^ance suggests — glowing in sunset reflections — wbite, gray, creamy* yellow, rose?kissed — again taking a smoky bue — in a pale blue sky. Tbe ligbt in tbem is strong* e^ over tbe mountain tops, and reflections of tbe clouds and woods appear in tbe rippKng mirror of tbe lake. Formerly in the collection of the late Dr. Fessenden N. Otis, who obtained it from the artist. Signed at the lower right, H. D. Martin (with a date not clearly decipherable, but in the '60's). PROPERTY OF THE UNION LEAGUE CLUB, NEW YORK. (2) LAKE GEORGE FROM BOLTON Height, 20 inches; width, 30 inches A spacious landscape, full of color and with a very- real feeling of the atmosphere of a sunny day when the clear sky is liberally besprinkled with light clouds. The narrow foreground shows a green, grass^grown clearing, with occasional spots of red and yellow, and on the right the brown trunks of some dead and fallen trees. Bordering the clearing a line of thick woods of rich green foliage extends across the pid:ure on an in^ cline sloping toward the middle di^ance, where roll* ing fields of yellowishsgreen verdure and rich quality spread out in the late afternoon sunshine. Beyond the fields is seen the soft, smooth surface of the beautiful Horicon, overspreading a large proportion of the ample pidture, and reflecting in deHcate tones the nues of the clear blue sky and its creamysyellow and slightly mauve=tinted clouds. On the farther shore the mountains rise in majestic solidity. Previously owned by J. B. Bristol, the artist, who acquired it from the late Mr. Watrous who obtained it from Martin. Martin, who often failed to sign his pictures, repeatedly promised Dr. Coan that he would add his signature to this canvas in good time. At last Dr. Coan said to him: "Well, Homer, when are you going to sign that picture of mine?" Glancing up through the fumes toward that elaborate ceiling of the Century Club dining-room, the jovial Homer replied: "When those curves roll away." PROPERTY OF DR. TITUS MUNSON COAN. 13 (3) THE IRON MINE, PORT HENRY, N. Y. Height, 30 inches; width, 50 inches Across tke breadth of the picture in the foreground the water of Lake Champlain sweeps in placid con= tentment, its surface Hned with the gentlest of ripples and become a chromatic mirror of the colorful bank which bounds it on the farther side . In the immediate foreground at the left is a group of boulders of the otherwise unseen hither shore, gray, brown and ma= hoganyscolored, green with moss and again grayed and whitened by scaly incru^ations. The high bank rising abruptly on the farther side of the water mounts nearly to the top of the pidlure, under a bright blue sky partly veiled by light, fleecy clouds of a fair day of summer. Its steep side which contains the mine, is a fascinating ^udy of color — gray and red rocks and brown earth, the light green of gathering mosses, the yellow ru^ of disintegrating iron in the great labora? tory of the earth under the influence of wet and weather. Near the top, and low toward the water s edge on the left, trees and bushes grow, where vegeta* tion can gain a foothold on the ^eep inclines, and at the border of the water a dead tree, leaning, adds its brown shadow to the many coloring the limpid ^ream. At the foot of the mine runway is a small, white, frame house, and near by a white canal boat with a green band lies alongshore. There is a story that this picture belonged to Boss Tweed who owned the mine and wished a portrait of it. The canvas was injured by fire and is repaired at the edges. EVANS COLLECTION, NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, WASHINGTON. 14 (4) ON LAKE ONTARIO Height, 12 inches; width, 20 inches A cKaradleri^ic landscape of upper New York State on the borders of the great lake. A portion of the va^ expanse of tKe lake occupies the left of the pic* ture, coming up to a low, rough, stony foreground shore which is outlying from a high bluff or bank on the right. The bank is ^eep and is being con^antly worn away by weather, as a tree already partly un= dermined attests, as it leans toward the water, its roots holding persi^ently to a precarious footing near the turf hne at the top of the bluff. The bluff is thickly wooded, a tall pine conspicuous among its bushier neighbors where an opening in the woods permits it to be the more readily seen. A strong light falls upon the bank, lightening the foliage of the outer trees while the depths of the woods recede in shadow. The land projedls into the lake in a bold point in the middle distance, and far out on the water some white sails gli^en in the sunlight. There is a gentle breeze and the water comes up to the foreground shore in low ripples. Undated but probably painted in the late sixties. Originally came from a Mrs. Richardson in whose house the picture was painted. PROPERTY OF H. C. HENRY, ESQ. 19 (5) THE GIANT OF THE VALLEY Height, 12 inches; width, 20 inches Across fallen trees and busK^tops of a narrow fore* ground tke spedlator looks to a calm, still lake, its smootk surface a silvery?wKite in tKe central part and in partial shadow about the edges, bordered by tall pines. On tke rigbt is the bigk mountain, its low? er flanks ricK with verdure, its top rising bare and rugged, with steep cliffs, above scattered, low;lying masses of gray vapor. Beyond tbe mountain, toward tKe left, the land goes back to a vague, indefinite diss tance under a blue sky witK tenuous gray and browns isKswbite clouds. Signed at the lower right, H. D. Martin, 1865. COLLECTION OF DR. D. M. STIMSON. 20 / AN ADIRONDACK LAKE Height, I5V2 inches; width, 24'/^ inches A small lake of meandering skoreline is pidlured in autumn when tke mountain fore^s are rich in mellow coloring. Tke narrow foreground skore and con tig* uous sides are a marsky green and greenisksyellow, mingled witk wkick are various ligkter and darker notes of sundry coarser grasses, weeds, or flowers of tkeo pen spaces or a wood. Tke lake, occupying tke middle di^ance, witk tkese meandering arms of skore reacking about it, kas for its fartker skore a fore^ kill; side, now rick in varied kues of vermilion, makog* anyskrown, yellow, and deep green, — tke killtop sloping from a kigk korizon on tke left to a low and di^ant one on tke rigkt, wkere beyond tke lake some barn=like i^rudlures are sugge^ed, rising above tke woods. Tke sky is a mass of gray;wkite and creamy* yellow clouds, spun over a robin's^egg blue, and its notes witk tkose of tke ckromatic woods are refledled in tke silvery mirror of tke lake. Signed at the lower left. Homer D. Martin. From W. W. Walker, who got the canvas from the artist. COLLECTION OF MISS L. P. BLISS. 25 (7) WINTER IN NORMANDY (WATER COLOR) Height, 14 inches; width, 10 inches Ju^ a friendly, sympatketic rendering of a moi^ morning — tke grey sky wet and heavy, yet attractive. The foreground is a broad, yellow, sandy road, lying between high, green banks, beyond which one feels the broad reaches of green fields. On the incKnes of the roadsides a tree or two, and bushes. The whole — a green, moi^, atmospheric landscape. Signed at the lower left, H. D. Martin. PROPERTY OF WILLIAM C. BROWNELL, ESQ. (8) ACROSS THE LAKE • Height, 201/2 inches; width, 12^/2 inches The spectator is in a scattered wood of second growth, of green grass and boulders ^rewn with yellow and brown leaves in the early autumn, and looks out over a pale blue lake lying below, its waters seen through the leafage. The trees are for the mo^ part ^iU green, some showing pink and yellow leaves near their tops. Beyond the lake one looks to green and blue upland fields, lying in sunshine, and over? topped in the di^ance by a line of blue hills. The sky is pale blue — as though seen through a di^ant hare. COLLECTION OF MONTGOMERY SCHUYLER, ESQ. 26 NEW HAMPSHIRE LANDSCAPE Height, 14 inches; width, I2V2 inches Under a bright sky in wkick wKite, cirrocumulus clouds arc plentiful, tke broad^topped mountains rise over wooded footbills wbicK tbemselves mount above a foreground field tbat is under cultivation. Tbe bigk? er mountain is a dark brownisk?green, wKile beyond it a side of its neighbor appears a dark, obscure blue in partial shadow. The broken valleys or ravines along the middlesdi^ance slopes are green and brown and red in the foliage of the thickly ?gr owing trees. In the foreground is a yellow grainfleld dotted with the gold* en^brown, garnered sheaves. To the right a green and yellow field is seen on a lower plane. Signed at the lower left, H. D. Martin. Painted in the late sixties. COLLECTION OF DR. D. M. STIMSON. (10) LONG LAKE Height, 7 inches; width, 17 inches The lake, marked by successive ripples which gli^en white as they break, extends across the fore* ground and back toward the di^ance, where it is bounded by the rolling hills, with the mountains beyond them. Its waters, light in the foreground, deepen farther away, while the di^ant heights are light in sunshine and the thickly^growing trees lower down at the borders of the lake are partly in shadow. Pale blue sky, with white clouds touched with rose. COLLECTION OF DR. D. M. STIMSON. 31 (11) SALT MEADOWS Height, I6V2 inches; width, 22 inches The broad foreground is flat meadow4and, green witk the grasses tkat persi^ on tke sandy reaches by the sea, interspersed with brown, yellow and red patches, and with darker notes where weeds dot the surface. All about the meadows the gray^white sand is seen among^ the herbage. Beyond the turquoise sea Wretches to a low horizon, the shore^line marked by the crests of a low surf. The clouded sky is pinkish; white in the center, deepening to gray and greenish* brown, with sugge^ions of blue beyond. A Normandy sketch of the middle eighties. COLLECTION OF DR. D. M. STIMSON. (12) AUTUMN ON THE SUSQ^UEHANNA Height, 15 inches; width, 25 inches The winding river, silverysblue and white, mean? ders about an autumn landscape, rich in mellow browns and showing a few glowing reds. The fore? ground of open fore^ is in shadow. From among^ the hills the river emerges, a narrow white ^reak coursing about the foot of the slopes, bending toward the left as it approaches, its surfacemote here blue as it divides and encompasses a small island. The sky is a faint, greenishsblue, with pale yellow notes among the clouds. Signed at the right and dated, 1879. William T. Evans Collection, 1900. COLLECTION OF DR. ALEXANDER C. HUMPHREYS. 32 (13) ONTARIO SAND DUNES Height, 26 inches; width, 40 inches Over tkc whole foreground spread the sandy?gray dunes, of a lovely colors quality, soft, velvety surface, and patched here and there by bunches of the coarse, wiry, graysgreen grass of the wild approaches to the great lake. At the right of the foreground, where the shore is low and the grass thicker, the land is in a transparent cloud^shadow, while toward the left the rising dunes are in the light. Beyond these, in the middle di^ance and the di^ance on the left, are still more elevated dunes, rising to the dignity of hills, and presenting further evidences of the green growths of an otherwise all but barren region. FiUing the middle di^ance on the right, the blue lake, which is dark in the di^ance, comes up on the hither side of the tall, di^ant dunesridge of the left, laps the bases of the sandsmounds there, and spreads in low wavelets and ripples along the flat lowland shore of the right fore? ground. Here the white lines of the miniature combers are touched with red by reflections from fiery strata of clouds in a glowing sunset sky. Aloft, great banks of smoky^gray clouds, while higher above these yet, other and lesser, gray cloud^patches share in the sun? set red. Signed at the lower left. Homer Martin. Dated, 1887. Acquired from Mrs. Martin. Probably the second picture of this theme, other versions of which are in the Metropolitan Museum and the collection of Mr. Schuyler. COLLECTION OF W. A. PUTNAM, ESQ. 37 . (14) LATE AUTUMN Height, 91/2 inches; width, inches One looks across a narrow brook in tke low fore= ground to the ^eep incline of the farther side of tke ravine tkrougk wkick it runs. Tkis slope is freely grown witk slender trees wkick rise above tkeir green and brown foUage and brown and gray trunks screening tke sky above tke top of tke ravine ridge. Tke ground from wkick tkey grow is green witk grass and brown witk fallen leaves, and tke air of autumn is pervasive and real over all. Painted on a panel. A pendant to "Early Spring," in the same ownership. This and the companion piece were painted about 1877. COLLECTION OF DR. D. M. STIMSON. (15) EARLY SPRING Height, 7 inches; width, 9*4 icnhes As tke owner says, ''One can squeeze tke water out of tkose leaves witk one's fingers. ' One is in an open wood, witk tke screened ligkt so diffused tkat tkere are few skadows. Across tke background one looks into tke green toucked kere and tkere witk yellow, wkere tke sunligkt percolates indiredlly. Out of tkis comes a brook, its waters a cool green and marked by tke brown refledrions of tke tkick carpet of leaves on its banks, dotted witk greenisk and grays isk brown rocks, and crossed by a low bridge. Painted on a panel. A pendant to "Late Autumn," in the same ownership. COLLECTION OF DR. D. M. STIMSON. 38 (16) RA^UETTE LAKE Height, 15 inches; width, 24Vi inches One of tKe attradlive canvases of the arti^'s earlier period, a typical expression of American landscape in autumn, wKen the colors are ^rong and the atmos? pKere hazy. TKe fair blue sky is of a pale?turquoise note, between clouds aloft and over di^ant mountain tops, where they merge with the mi^s, the clouds being ju^ touched with color. The mountains extend across the pidlure, and the lake comes into view before them, at the foot of the range and in the center of the composition, and passing forward between wooded points at either side, expands over the middle di^ance, its surface a pale greenish;blue, turned toward a pinks ish flush by refledrions of the clouds and of the bright? colored foliage of its shores. The woods all around are gay with brilliant red and yellow and brown, among^ the deep green notes of tall pines. Across the fore? ground, yellowish^green wild grasses and weeds are growing, and gray rocks are there, and a bit of a rail fence. Signed at the lower right, H. D. Martin, 1869. PROPERTY OF M. KNOEDLER & CO. 43 (17) A GLIMPSE OF THE SEA Height, 15 inches; width, 25 inches Blue sky, of clear and deep tone, is partially dis? closed in a sedtion of the heavens, whick elsewhere are obscured by delicate clouds of pearly^gray hue, enlivened by gentle rose^pink flushes. Below them, far at the left, the hazy sea all but merges with them at the gray horizon, the white surf line of its low and slowsmoving waves refledling the light in the left middle di^ance. To right of the surf line, dunes or rocky mounds begin, rising high over the horizon and blotting out the view of the sea, — outpo^s of rising land which is sugge^ed at the boundary of the pidlure on the right. These mounds are full of delicate color, — gray, buff, ironsru^, green of different tones, — and short bushes, leaning under habitual wind^pressure, are seen on the sea sides of the mounds, rising over their tops. The foreground, sloping from the right and around the dunes toward the brief surf line, is a mots tling of soft verdure with brown touches, and here and there an intermingling of the gray foundation sand. The sea being shut out from the view, beyond the dunes, yet glimpsed farther away at the left, there is an atmosphere and a feeling of peace and of a quiet retreat, though in the open and near the boundless ocean. A Newport subject probably painted in the late nineties. Signed at the lower right, H. D. Martin. COLLECTION OF GEORGE A. HEARN. ESQ. 44 (18) HEADWATERS OF THE HUDSON Height, 20 inches; width, 32 inches A silvery thread, tke beginning oftke great river is seen as it breaks its way tkrougb tke fastnesses oftke migkty kills . Beyond it tke mountains rise, tier upon tier, tkeir fartkest outlines lost in tke clouded sky. Tkrougk tke rifts in tke clouds tke sunUgkt falls in fitful gleams on tke kiUs and into tke valleys. Tke foKage everywkere is toucked witk tke glorious aus tumnal coloring, adding brilliantly to tke beauty of tke landscape. This picture apparently served as the inspiration for Mr. Untermyer's great canvas "Adirondack Scenery." Signed at the right and dated, H. D. Martin, 1869. Thomas B. Clarke Collection, 1899. Emerson McMillin Collection, 1913. 49 (19) AUTUMN IN THE ADIRONDACKS Height, 22 inches; width, 40 inches A bold and expansive landscape is spread before tke eye, and a red glow is over tke land, as of sunset in= tensifying tbe cardinal ve^ure of the autumn woods. FootbiUs of tbe mountains, bigb and rounded, and seamed by ravines witb steep sides, occupy tbe fore= ground on tbe rigbt and mount toward a sky of tenu? ous wbite clouds. Toward tbe left a river winds along tbe bases of tbe bills, vanisbing among bigblands and lowlands of tbe middle di^ance, its left=b and border a low sbore radiant witb more of tbe fro^^kissed foliage of tree and busb, blusbing in tbe sunligbt. Signed at the lower right, H. D. Martin, 1871. Emerson McMillin Collection, 1913. PROPERTY OF J. W. CLISE, ESQ. 50 (20) RICHMOND ON THAMES Height, 16 inches; width, 21 inches There is noticeable quality in the blue and green Thames, mottled by reflections of a deep blue sky full of heavy white clouds, and by the dark shadows — which come toward the spedtator — of short, thick, bushy, dark green trees growing on the land across the river. The ^ream enters the composition in the middle di^ance near the center, under the gray ^one arched bridge, and crossing the landscape at a leisure* ly diagonal passes out of the pidlure in the right fore? ground. The farther bank is thick with trees and lush, bright green grass; the nearer shore a ^rand of deep, reddish^brown of rich quality, marked by a fence near which a ^rip of green grass is growing, and beyond it is a luxuriant oak. Various figures appear along the i^rand, a slant of sunlight ^riking upon those near the bridge and upon a neighboring group of buildings. Beyond the bridge, across the background, the wood* ed hill rises, buildings are seen upon it, and parts of its bank are touched by sunshine. This canvas was painted about the year 1877. The composition of this picture was several times altered and all the lower portion added and at a somewhat later date. PROPERTY OF WILLIAM C. BROWNELL, ESQ. 55 (21) SARANAC LAKE Height, 24 inches; width, 40 inches. A low and narrow foreground is green and brown and gray, witK eartk, boulders and grasses — and isos lated wild flowers intermingling . At its left is the edge of the green fore^, and at its rigbt a group of leaning bircKes, these separate tree masses framing a view of tbe lake wkicK occupies tbe middle di^ance, lying before a wooded and mountainous background wbich makes a massive di^ance. Tbe bosom of tbe lake bas a delicate sbeen of a silvery ^blue, almo^ overborne by and merging in tbe green reflections of tbe fore^ surroundings. Above tbe mountain tops plenteous smokysgray and gray?wbite clouds aU but obscure a blue sky. Signed at the lower left, H. D. Martin, 1878. COLLECTION OF DR. ALEXANDER C. HUMPHREYS. 56 (22) WINDSOR CASTLE Height, 18 inches; width, 24 inches The ancient fortress^ca^lc, on Ker keigKts, is seen from far below, her massive towers rising again^ a light gray sky of late afternoon, in wkick traces of the blue are distinguishable aloft — above the soft, grayish? white clouds which give the whole expanse its tone. The season is early summer, and trees are in full, ricn foliage. They make up a large part of the pidiure, almo^ framing the castle — except above, where the ^urdy battlements, unconfined, soar skyward. The fortress and terrace appear over a solid bank of trees which grow across the lowlands at the base of the great escarpment. At the foot of these dense trees a group of stock buildings — sandy sgray and a warm, reddishsbrown — ^and on the far side of an interven; ing meadow whose lush grass, well watered by the neighboring river, is a Ught, yellowish^green in con? tra^ to the deep tone of the trees. Toward the left two figures trudge across the meadow. On the hither side of the meadow lies the river, which passes from view in the left foreground, a part of which it forms. Farther toward the right the foreground is made up of a narrow bit of the river's nearer shore of brown* sandy earth, with loose green grasses and weeds flourishing along the water's edge. This pidture was finished in 1878. Mr. George A. Hearn owns an interesting decorative version of this theme painted on leather. PROPERTY OF DR. J. MONTGOMERY MOSHER. 61 (23) UANSE ST. ETIENNE, SAGUENAY (WATER COLOR) Height, 6^/^ inches; width, 10 inches A killside, yellowisKsgreen, slopes from the rigkt to a foreground where tall grasses of a deeper green shoot up ahove the shorter grass, and to the left also, where it falls abruptly to a narrow ravine, beyond which rises on the farther left and toward the ground a steep, wooded hill. On the cre^ of the green hillside at the right is a brown cottage with a sloping, reddishsbrown roof, and various smaller buildings are seen in part lower down the incline and in the ravine. Inscribed at the lower right, "L'anse St. Etienne, Saguenay, July 25, '79." COLLECTION OF DR. D. M. STIMSON. (24) L'ANSE AUX BASSES PIERRES (WATER COLOR) Height, 7 inches; width, 10 inches Under the gray sky of a light summer day a corner of the bay, lying between the low rocks of the fore^ ground and tall, light?green and dark hillsides on the right, which extend back and toward the left. The rocks or broken boulders are gray and green, the wa? ter is a light gray and barely mottled by slight motion. In midsdi^ance, at anchor, toward the right, is Dr. Stimson's shallop, its tall ma^ rising above the hills. COLLECTION OF DR. D. M. STIMSON. 62 (25) BLOSSOMING TREES Height, 16 inches; width, 24 inches A lovely painting of inviting nature, a tender im- pression of blossoming springtime on a quiet day in the country. A wild and grassy field forms tKe fore? ground, extending back on the left to the border of a wood. In tbe middle di^ance kere, detached from tbe wood and separated from it by an indenting arm of a river, a line of slender trees are in full blossom, wbite in tbe sunligbt, and extending transversely over near? ly balf tbe breadtb of tbe pidlure. Tbe silvery river at tbe rigbt bears on its fartber courses tbe sbadows of woods along its low fartber sbore and across tbe di^ance tbere, and its insjutting arm near tbe bios? soming trees is marked by reflections of tall trees witb graceful brancbes wbicb ^and at tbe bream's edge on tbe outskirts of tbe denser wood of tbe left. A Normandy study of the middle eighties. PROPERTY OF MRS. CHARLES O. GATES. 6/ (26) ON THE SEINE Height, 22 inches; width, 30 inches On the rigkt, trees in mass and, in the center of an opening between two of the largest of the trees through which the light of late afternoon breams, there ^ands a birch with feathery top, the trunk: showing silvery again^ the foliage of the trees at the right. The foreground is grassy, of a rich green with Wretches of clay or sand showing red. At the left, two willows much cut back, but with a few slender branches covered with foliage and giving considerable mass to this detail. In the center, a great tree has fallen in the river and the huge gnarled trunk is shown at the right of the willows. The sky is full of the gold of midsummer afternoon relieved at the top by great clouds. The river is of a calm silvery tone and the hills appearing on the opposite bank are rich and warm and fully colored. The pidlure is altogether a very serene and beautiful example, exceedingly poetic and is evidently a work of his later years. Signed at the right, H. D. Martin._ COLLECTION OF RALPH CUDNEY, ESQ. 68 (27) THE DUNES (WATER COLOR) Height, 10 inches; width, 14 inches Under a blue sky, tall sand dunes come into tke pidture from tke left, wKere they form a Kigk bluff wbicb beyond tke center of tbe composition begins its gentle and broken slope toward tbe rigbt and passes out of view. Near its crown are sligbt groups of trees, and before one of tbem a figure is seen, wandering along tbe bluff, wbose sides sbow green as tbey slope toward a verdant foreground. Signed at the lower left, H. D. Martin, 1883. COLLECTION OF DR. ALEXANDER C. HUMPHREYS. (28) THE MOONLIT POND-HONFLEUR Height, 10 inches; width, 14 inches Tbe pond occupies tbe foreground, tbe narrowest bit of its green, grassy sbore crossing tbe pidture. On tbe fartber sb ore flowers or busbes blossom on tbe low bank, back of tbem rising a line of tall, slender trees, beyond wbicb, across a moonlit field, low woods form tbe di^nce. In tbe early evening sky, screened witb Hgbt clouds, tbe crescent moon, ber silvery ^wbite form refled:ed in tbe pond. Again^ tbe fartber bank a figure in a beavy green boat. Signed at the lower right, Homer Martin. COLLECTION OF DR. ALEXANDER C. HUMPHREYS. 73 (29) NORMANDY LANDSCAPE Height, 15 inches; width, 24 inches At an inviting Kour of a delightful afternoon of early autumn, the sped:ator is taken to a quiet, seclude edspot oftke countryside, overlooking a bit of shallow water. A strip of red^sandy eartK is disclosed in the immediate foreground, where a single small boulder rises above the earth4evel at the water's edge. From the left, beyond the water, a bank of land crowned by open brown fields projcdts, in the middle di^ance, descending toward the center of the composition to a low point about which the ^ream curves into view, the short slope supporting a transverse line of trees whose green and autumn^tinged foliage rubles in a gentle afternoon breeze. On the right is a green, red and brown wood, before which are low, thickly? growing bushes of a warm, reddishsbrown hue. Far in the central di^ance is seen a flat, sun- ht field, bounded by low trees along the horizon. The re? fledted light from a sky full of pearly white clouds, with a faint flush of lavender?rose, brightens the fore? ground water and limns there the shadows of trees and trunks. Signed at the lower right, Homer D. Martin. COLLECTION OF MRS. HAROLD IRVING PRATT. 74 (30) THE LIGHTHOUSE, HONFLEUR Height, lOV^ inches; width, 8 inches Tkc blufF or clifF of the coa^, Kigk at the left wKere it comes into view, is in strong silhouette again^ a bright evening sky whick ca^s tke cKff 's nearer side into skadow and tkrows forward upon tke water tke dark, tapering skadow of tke tall, gray ligkt? kouse, its lamp aHgkt. Tke sea, filling in tke fore* ground, refledls tke gray^blue and wkite notes of tke windy, adtive sky. Under tke skadow of tke cliff, some buildings, gray in tke gatkering skadows, in one of wkick yellow ligkts gleam from two windows. Signed at the lower left, H. D. Martin. Original study for the large canvas owned by the Century Club. COLLECTION OF DR. ALEXANDER C. HUMPHREYS. (31) RUBY STRONG-NORMANDY Height, 14 inches; width, 11 inches A beack of sandy * brown and grayisk? yellow, marked by skgkt patckes of dark brown seaweed, occupies tke foreground. Beyond ^retckes tke blue? green sea. Near tke center of tke beack. Ruby Strong i^ands in an easy attitude, facing tke left, ker full fea* tures seen in profile. Ske wears knee skirts and is bare4egged, ker dark skirt surmounted by a gray? green jacket witk vertical red Gripes. Her dark kair kangs about ker skoulders, and ske ^ands witk arms bekind ker — gazing ^eadfastly afar off. COLLECTION OF DR. ALEXANDER C. HUMPHREYS. 79 (32) SAND DUNES, LAKE ONTARIO Height, 12 inches; width, 20 inches. An early painting of the landscape wkicK was pidtured later in larger terms in tke great canvas of tKe George A. Hearn collediion at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This indeed was the fir^ of several versions of the same theme. The encroaching gray? white sands sweeping diagonally across the fores ground, which they form, have partially engulfed solid trees whose hrown and leanino trunks — seen only near their upper branches — rise out of the waste at right and left, a few crumpled leaves cUnging to some of the tips. From a tree at the right a withered branch projedls low over the sand in the immediate foreground, meeting scraggly branches rising through the blading grains from a tree on the left. Below the light foreground, across the middle di^ance, is a dark band of red, brown and green brush, growing above the low reaches of brown land and blue water where the lake puts in from the right. Around the left, be? yond the dark middle di^ance, the lake is bounded by higher dunes, broken and irregular, some barren and some on which hardy vegetation has gained a foothold, the barren sections making light spots in the landscape , under rather a sombre gray?blue sky. Signed at the lower left, H. D. Martin, 1874. COLLECTION OF MONTGOMERY SCHUYLER, ESQ. 8o / i (33) LOW TIDE, HONFLEUR Height, 14 inches; width, 24 inches TKe coa^ looks bleak, at a bleak Kour toward tke close of a cloudy day, — bleak and forsaken, its loneli* ness only empkasized by tbe presence of a single, bumble, apparently deserted building, witK irregular, low tbatcbed roof, tbat ^ands ju^ above Kigb?tide mark at tbe foot of a low, green bill. Tbe green land enters tbe pidture from tbe left, sloping forward and to tbe rigbt, down to tbe yellow^sandy beacb, of tbe foreground and rigbt middle di^ance, from wbicb tbe tide bas receded. Tbe beavy sky is completely filled witb dark, slaty, creamy^wbite and faintly lavender* tinged clouds. Signed at the lower left, H. D. Martin. COLLECTION OF DR. ALEXANDER C. HUMPHREYS. 85 (34) EVENING ON THE SEINE Height, 18 inches; width, 30 inches Beyond a low, marshy foreground, muddy?brown and gray and green, whicli tKe river invades in irreg? ular patches, the main body of the ^ream is seen flow? ing across the pidlure, its farther hank a dark, indefi? nite hne of low hills, in the twilight. The cloudy sky aloft is dark, and alow along the we^ern horizon is i^ill bright with thick, yellowish=white clouds which near the darker vapor show touches of lavender. In the middle di^ance far at the left, on higher land of the hither bank, the mass of a town's buildings rises in silhouette again^ the lighter part of the sky, and deepens the shadows of evening before it. Signed at the lower right, H. D. Martin. EVANS COLLECTION, NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, WASHINGTON. 86 (35) ON THE SEINE Height, 12V^i inches; width, 22% inches The sky is filled with wKite and gray clouds, save for one long ^reak of turquoise. The peacefiil Seine flows about an angle of land which forms the fores ground, green with tangled grass and wild brush growths, with which bits of color mingle. Extends ing almo^ i^raight out from the observer toward the i^ream is a short line of tall, slender trees, devoid of leaves or branches, except that a tiny tuft of foliage waves at the high top of each. Across the river a group of indu^rial buildings is seen, along the low, flat bank, and back of them a line of hills above which rises a wooded mound. A church spire mounting above the hills is refledted in the water, its shadow neighbor to that of a laden sloop with yellow sails which is seen in the middle di^ance. Signed at the lower right, H. D. Martin. William T. Evans Collection, 1913. PROPERTY OF WILLIAM MACBETH. (36) ON THE HUDSON Height, 24 inches; width, 34 inches A va^ landscape is spread before the eye, in one of the mo^ comprehensive views that the arti^ has undertaken to render. Near and far it is as abundant as Nature herself. Sunlight and shadows vary it and in the di^ance clouds are neighbors to it. Beyond an immediate foreground of clearing is a foreground of thick trees extending across the pidlure, the nearer side darkened in shadow, the tops of the taller trees lightening as the foliage lessens. Beyond them and seen below, over their tops, from higher land, is the noble river, taking something of a diagonal course, and silvers gr ay with cloud refledtions . Across the ^r earn, the land on the farther side spreads far and wide and is dotted with the habitations of men, and seems in the picture to join in the di^ance with the clouds. Signed at the lower right, H. D. Martin, 1881. COLLECTION OF JOHN T. PRATT, ESQ. 92 (37) A FOREST BROOK Height, 14 inches; width, 26 inches Under a glowing sky aflame witk yellowed sunset kues, a bend of a fore^ brook is sbown, passing at the foot of a bill wbicb ^ands on tbe rigbt, and coursing among^ small boulders of tbe foreground. Tbe deptbs of tbe sky take a Grange green ratber tban blue tone, in tbe admixture of cross^refledtions from tbe varied clouds. Parts of tbe foreground are in sbadow, else? wbere tbe glowing brilliance of tbe sunset reflections ligbtens botb tbe brook and its sbores, playing in a multiplicity of color on tbe sbimmering surface of tbe water, on green^encrui^ed rocks, and on leaf=^rewn banks witb a riot of green and blossoming wild berb* age and undergrowtb. Signed at the lower left, H. D. Martin, 1881. Obtained from the artist. IN A PRIVATE COLLECTION. 97 (38) COAST MEADOWS, ST. SAUVEUR Height, 7 inches; width, 10 inches Under a gray sky whose lower expanse is tinged witK fainted lavender^pink, some cattle are sKown, grazing. Tke coaxal meadows in wKicK tKey wans der are a deep, rick, lusK green of a fine quality. The cattle are in a scattered group, a red and wKite cow foraging toward tke right, Ker companions of various colors farther back and all hut one with heads down in the inviting verdure. Far off, under the dull sky, is a wavy line of deep, dark hlue. Homer himself wrote the title on the back of this picture, as Mrs. Martin attests. Signed at the lower right, H. D. Martin, 1881. COLLECTION OF LYMAN A. MILLS, ESQ. (39) LANDSCAPE Height, 11% inches; width, 19% inches A verdant hillside sweeps across the picfture, slops ing forward to a nearly level, green foreground, marked with hght yellow and dark browns among ^ the sh ort herbage of a farmyard, with a gray ^able with yellowsbrown roof landing at the left. On the hillside is a hamlet of small cottages and a church, their walls gray — or pinkish* white, and the roofs red or dark brown. In the foreground and middle di^ance are slender trees of mahogany =brown foKage — the whole under a peculiar twiUght glow. Signed at the lower left, H. D. Martin, 1883. COLLECTION OF WILLIAM MACBETH. 98 (40) AN ADIRONDACK LAKE-LAKE SANFORD Height, 18 inches; width, 29 inches It is the fall of the year, the leaves of the fore^ trees Kave begun to turn, the mountains are full of ricK color in a crisp atmospKere, Kunters are out, and the beauti* ful mountain lake lies spread before tbe observer, ju^ beyond tke narrov/e^ of foregrounds of brown?sandy soil. It is an end or bay of the lake that comes into viev/ from tbe rigbt and is bounded on tbe left by a wooded sbore, tbe nearer and sborter trees brilliant in tbeir autumn coloring of red and brown, and taller trees wbicb rise above tbem retaining tbeir green. On tbe low, sloping bank, near tbe water's edge, two bunters ^and over tbe body of a deer tbey bave bagged, tbeir boats bauled up on tbe bank near tbem. Tbe fartber sbore of tbe lake, in tbe middle distance, is low and tbickly wooded, and sbares in its abundant foHage tbe brigbt colors of tbe left^band sbore. Be? , yond, in tbe di^ance, tbe mountains repose in majes? tic ^ate, tbeir tone a green?blue, tbeir summits ming? ling witb tbe sbifting vapors of a sky of ligbt, tenuous clouds wbicb reveal creamy?yellow and yellowisb? pink toucbes of late afternoon. Tbe water of tbe lake mirrors tbe ricblyscolored and ^rangely commingled refledlions of trees, mountains and sky in a subdued yet brilliant glow — ligbt at tbe rigbt, in sbadow of tbe tall trees of its bank on tbe left. Signed at the lower right, H. D. Martin, 1883. COLLECTION OF JAMES G. SHEPHERD, ESQ. 103 (41) LOWER AUSABLE POND Height, 18 inches; width, 30 inches TKe water of tke pond is a cool green, and largely in tke Kalf^ligkt of the late day or early morning, and also in tke skadows of tke neigkboring kills and mouns tains. In tke foreground, grasses, reeds and ruskes projedl above tke placid surface, and ducks are flying low over tke water or swimming among tke reeds. In tke middle di^ance a slant of sunKgkt coming tkrougk between tke mountains makes a silvery? wkite ^reak on tke surface of tke pond, gli^ening ju^ before its fartker skore, wkick at tke left is marked by a dark Kne of low trees at tke water's edge. Back of tkese rise tke rougk, irregular mountains, tkeir keavy flanks greens wooded and tkeir tall peaks mounting far toward a sky of faint blue, filled witk yellowisk and reddisk^tinged clouds. On tke rigkt in tke middle diss tance tke sk ore is a wooded kill, rising at a gentle slope and tkrowing its skadow over tke water before it. Tke edge of tkis skore, under tke trees, seems to be dotted witk cottages. Signed at the lower left, H. D. Martin, and at the lower right, 1868. EVANS COLLECTION, NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, WASHINGTON. 104 (42) DECEMBER MORNING IN NORMANDY Height, 20 inches; width, 36 inches A broad Killside on the right slopes gently to a val* ley, wkicK occupies tKe central and larger part of the pidture, being bounded on the left by the sugge^ion of a lesser Killside rising tbere along tbe foreground and middle di^ance. Coming tbrougk tbe valley diag* onally and passing from view in tbe rigbt foreground, is a narrow river or broad brook, its greenisb^blue waters darkened by sbadows of brown busbes and berbage wbicb mingle witb tbe greenery of its low banks, and its surface mirroring also tbe trunks of tall, slender trees tbat grow in a long, irregular line a little dii^tant on tbe farther side of the ^ream. To left of the ^ream the foreground and middle di^ance is low and flat land, mottled in attradlive tones of warm brown and green, as barren earth or verdure gets the better hand. A little di^ance down the road, here, a peasant figure is seen, walking, and beyond, at the verge ofthe low hill at the left, redsroofed cottages nestle. A deep blue sky is filled with clouds which are mottled in many tints by the sunlight coming from back of the high, right?hand hill, whose screening mass leaves all the re^ of the landscape in a soft, attradlive halflight. Signed at the lower left, H. D. Martin, 1883. Obtained from the artist. IN A PRIVATE COLLECTION. 109 (43) LOW TIDE-VILLERVILLE Height, 15 inches; width, 24 inches Far out toward a KigK Korizon tke ocean is a dull, brownisKsgray, under a lighter gray sky. The fore^ ground is a flat, brown, sandy beacK, wkere a solitary figure in white cap and brown skirt is seen bending over to pick up sometking from tke sands. As tke low billows roll slowly up tke skallows, combing into wkite foam, tke wavy wkite lines make tke ligkte^ spots in tke pidture, on a day wken tke sun is obscured. Tke nearer sides oftke waves, seen below tke foamy cre^s, are a deep brown, as tkey bear skoreward tkick brands of seaweed, patckes of wkick are seen marking tke kigke^ or neare^ of tke wave^Unes up tke Deacn. Tke middle di^ance toward tke left is dark under a cloudsskadow. A picture of tke desert reackes oftke seaskore on a gray but Hgkt and peaceful day, witk a fine quality in tke painting oftke beack sand and tke seaweed. Signed at the lower right, H. D. Martin, 1884. William T. Evans Collection, 1913. PROPERTY OF MISS A. B. JENNINGS. no (44) LAKE GEORGE Height, 13 inches; width, 20 inches Autumnal brown and sugge^ions of dull red tinge a broad, low, green foreground, which is broken by grayishswhite rocks, and the same hues reappear among a mass of trees on the right and in a detached tree or two toward the left. Beyond, between the tree groups, lies the Horicon, a blend of gray?white and pale blue, reflecting a sky which bears these tones of summer throughout, wide?spreading over a landscape marked by the notes of advancing fall. The farther shore of the lake is visible toward the left, in the dis* tance. Signed at the lower right, H. D. Martin, 1884. From the Collection of William T. Evans, who obtained the canvas from the artist. PROPERTY OF GEORGE BARR McCUTCHEON, ESQ. (45) CREPUSCULE-MONTVILLIERS Height, 19% inches; width, 24 inches A country Kouse set in a little copse of trees, upon an eminence, is seen again^ tKe early evening sky. Above, ju^ to the rigkt of the buildings, bangs tbe new moon. In tbe foreground a brook wanders at tbe foot of tbe rising ground, tbrougb an open meadow, tbe trees and tbe sky refledledin its sbining surface. Tbis canvas, painted by Martin in France, was given by bim, in payment for work, to an American dentin residing tbere, a Dr. Sizer. Signed at the right, and dated, H. D. Martin, 1885. COLLECTION OF WILLIAM H. SAGE. lib (46) THE SEA AT VILLERVILLE Height, 12V^ inches; width, 23V4 inches. A broad ^rctcK of a low, sandy beacK, and a va^ expanse of ocean under a Hgkt sky TKe gray^green sea comes up in gentle motion, spattering into wKite foam and creeping up the beacK in weakening, uncer? tain ripples. Fartber up tbe beacb in tbe foreground are patcbes of dried seaweed, left by former and bigber tides, and lending tbeir toucb to tbe feeling and atmospbere of tbe great salty wa^e. Signed at the lower right, H. D. Martin, '85. KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE; PRESENTED BY MRS. W. P. THAYER. (47) GOLDEN SANDS Height, 15 inches; width, 24 inches Tbe sands are golden under a soft ligbt on a quiet day along tbe Frencb seacoa^. Tbe tide is out and a woman, basket borne on ber back, is in searcb of tbe foods yielded by tbe sea. Sbe wears a black, sbort skirt, blue waist witb sbortened sleeves, and a broad? brimmed, brownisb^red, old felt bat. Tbe foreground is a mingled green and brown; beyond are tbe golden sands, and afar tbe sweep of tbe sea. At tbe rigbt a partly wooded point comes into view, connecting witb tbe foreground. Tbe blue sky is veiled by filmy cloud, toucbed in one spot by a faint pink. Signed at the lower right, H. S. Martin. PROPERTY OF MRS. WILLIAM MACBETH. 121 (48) THE MEADOW BROOK Height, l^Vz inches; width, 24 inches Across the background a range of more or less even, roundedstop trees and Kills extends, receding and less sening in keigkt in perspedlive from the rigkt, until in the di^ance at tke left tke tops of trees growing in tke nearer lowlands projedl above tke kilMine. Tke brown bank of tke kill's continuous side is covered witk green timber, toucked witk relieving reddisk? brown, and at tke base a gray and a red building are seen, eack witk long, slanting roof Tke broad, flat meadow of tke foreground is a rick, lusk green near tke borders of tke brook wkick gives its title to tke canvas, and elsewkere tke meadow is mottled witk tke varied notes of a luxuriant kerbage. In tke middle di^ance toward tke left is a pidturesque group of slen? der, crooked^trunked trees witk kigk, sparse, dark green foliage, seen again^ tke gray sky, wkick is marked kere and tkere by patckes of faint blue among tke ^rata of grayisk^wkite cloud. Tke water of tke brook is a deep green, witk ligkt reflections of tke sky. Signed at the lower right, Martin, 1887. Stanford White Collection, 1907. William T. Evans Collection, 1913. PROPERTY OF MRS. J. S. WATSON. 122 (49) THE SUN WORSHIPPERS Height, 30 inches; width, 61 inches The foreground of tliis expansive painting is a sligktly undulating Wretch of tke Normandy coa^— windswept; and the landscape would be bleak but for tke rich tones of warm brown, with here and there a touch of red, among;^ the green of grass and weed. Beyond, one looks to a turquoise sea, and over the lower dips of the undulating land surface to the sea's nearer shallows, where a low surf breaks, in long, uneven Hnes of whitening foam. Out over the sea gray banks of fog are drifting in, the sky above them a screen of nebulous clouds of a lighter gray, warmed with rose hues. Along the edge of the coaxal bluff, crossing the pidlure, is a Hne of trees — trees scattered at the left and center, and growing in close order on the right — short trees of slender, crooked trunks, with foliage, branches and trunks all alike blown toward the right and permanently bent by years of prevalent winds, the foliage rich in the quaHty of its green. Whether or not genial Homer purposed entitUng this pidture ""Trees on a Bender," few regret the choice of the more poetic ''Sun ^Vorshippe^s" upon beholding these launch, arboreal Normans extending umbra? geous arms toward unseen Phoebus in the decUvity of the heavens, his course a rose?way fixed beyond the gloam. Painted after the artist's return to New York in 1886. COLLECTION OF LOUIS MARSHALL, ESQ. 127 (50) SOUTH SIDE OF LONG ISLAND Height, 15V^ inches; width, 24^/2 inches One of the many pid;ures of the neigkborliood of the salty sea of which the arti^ was as fond as of his nooks, lakes and glens of the woodlands. He found on ocean^girt Long Island a motive as congenial to him as the desolate dunes near Newport or the peaceful coa^s of Normandy , and putting himself in commun* ion with the spirit of the place rendered its lonely heauty with the charm of that unfailing quality that was so conspicuous in his later years. Sandy reaches hy the seaside, scant herbage, a bush or bunted tree of dense foliage to offer a little shadow, and a scatter* ing group of short, slender trees of varying trunk* forms and light leafage, in the middle di^ance beyond a gently sloping foreground — in these he found and transmitted an expression of ''the South Side of Long Island." Signed at the lower right, H. D. Martin, 1894. PROPERTY OF THE ESTATE OF THE LATE MR. ARTHUR H. HEARN. 128 (51) CRI^UEBOEUF CHURCH Height, 24V^ inches; width, 37l/^ inches It was close to this churck that Homer also found the motives for his ''Normandy Farm" and ''An Old Manor, Normandy," which are reproduced elses where in this volume. The ancient, small and pic? turesque church, its gray walls and red roofs all but hidden by the luxuriant, clinging green ivy, ^ands to the right of the center of the pidlure, ju^ beyond the pond of silvery surface which occupies much of the foreground and of the middle di^ance. All around the pond the grass and weeds and field flowers are green and brown, pink, red and white, on the low shores. Across the background is a wooded hill, with low, gray=white buildings with thatched roofs of a warm, reddish^brown banked up again^ it. It is late in the day and the sky, full of bluishsgray, creamy* white and rose-tinted clouds, ca^s forward on the gently rippling surface of the pond the varied shadows of church and tower and trees. A poetic landscape in a poetic moment, calm, restful, secluded and inviting — with Martin's sub^antial drawing in buildings and landscape portraiture. The air is clear, with the slowly ^gathering moi^ur e of evening in summer about the tree^enshrined water. Signed at the lower right, H. D. Martin, 1893. William T. Evans Collection, 1900. COLLECTION OF SAMUEL UNTERMYER, ESQ. 133 (52) NORMANDY FARM . Height, 18 inches; width, 25 inches Sitting nc^led among slender trees, and otkers of busKy foliage, a rambling farmbouse witb low, gray? wbite walls and brown=tbatcb roof is placed but a few feet from a smootb pond wbicb is full of color. In parts it takes green reflecftions from tbe luxuriant verdure of its banks, elsewbere is partly filled in witb mosses and weeds tbat grow in its sluggisb water, and again it mirrors a corner of tbe farmbouse, a detacbed tree at tbe border of tbe water, or becomes a silverysgray and wbite wbere it refledls tbe brigbt sky. Tbe sky is a clear, brilliant blue, tbougb obscured by soft wbite clouds wbicb bere and tbere are toucbcd witb pink and yellow. To rigbt of tbe bouse, green and yellow fields extend invitingly toward a far norizon. Tbe pond is tbe same into wbicb, on anotber side, tbe an? cient Criqueboeuf cburcb, as Mrs. Martin says, ''dips its foot." Tbe canvas is one of tbe last wbicb Martin painted. Signed at the lower right, H. D. Martin, 1895. First owned by WiUiam T. Evans, Esq., who bought it shortly before the artist's death. Later the property of the late Lyman G. Bloomingdale. PROPERTY OF MRS. L. G. BLOOMINGDALE. (53) ON THE MISSISSIPPI Height, 15 inches; width, 20 inches On the rigKt a Kigk, flat?topped Kill enters tKe pic* ture, in the middle di^ance, its brow presently de* dining ratker abruptly to a low point of land wbick juts out into tke river flowing around it. Tke Miss? issippi kere is relatively narrow, as it appears emerge ing from a kazy di^ance back of tke low point, wkick witk tke kigk kill kides its upper courses from view; and off tke point it divides into two breams, tke one sweeping in to tke rigkt about tke point and vanisking from tke pidlure, tke otker taking a course leftward across tke canvas, its di^ant skore a low, indefinite land^mass reacking to a far korizon. Between tkese two branckes tke broad foreground is low and flat, running into a marsky point wkere tke current di* vides, and tke land is grassy and moi^, pale green and yell ow. Tke moving river is blue and wkite — witk a tinge of yellow — as it reflects tke deep blue sky and many clouds tkere — grayisk^wkite, yellow, orange, lavender and smokysgray. Tkere is a sense of va^? ness and solitude, and of soft surfaces in a migkty land. This canvas, picturing the river below St. Paul, was painted toward the close of the artist's life. Signed at the lower right, H. D. Martin. COLLECTION OF BURTON MANSFIELD, ESQ. 139 (54) NEWPORT NECK Height, 30 inches; width, 45 inches Abroad and brilliant sweep of landscape and sea, and a wonderfully lighted sky. From the left a long and moderately bigb neck of barren coa^ projedts in an undulating decline, its lower and fartkestsreacli= ing Wretches jutting into tke blue sea of the di^ance, and into the white and silvery shallows of the middle di^ance which were left in the hollowed sands by a receding tide. On the right a lower neck of similar land, bleak under the sweep of the winds and reveal; ing a few bunted trees or low bushes, comes into the pidlure to help form the pocket where the shallow waters lie imprisoned — the shore between the necks, in the foreground, being of lower land, for the mo^ part barren but sustaining sparse herbage and some short bushes. The herbage is a brownishsgreen, and the land about wears similar colors, here verging more upon the green, there pronouncedly of a velvety brown, and yonder again of a pla^ic gray. The water of the silveryswhite shallows is tinged with fainted pink and a pale yellow, as it reflects some of the my; riad notes in the Grange, effulgent sky. Low over the indigo sea is a cloud band of slate hue, above which cirro;^ratus clouds take tints of pearl;gray, salmon, lavendersrose, moss^green, and a vague variety of in; termediate tones. In spots are to be seen intimations of the bright blue beyond. Signed at the lower right, H. D. Martin, 1893. PROPERTY OF THE LOTOS CLUB, NEW YORK. 140 (55) A NEWPORT LANDSCAPE Height, 18 inches; width, 30 inches Homer Martin's last work. One is living by the seaside — or kas paused tkere awhile — and breathes the atmosphere of the salt marshes. Here the whole spread of the landscape is verdure=clad, a low, flat foreground of salt meadows of grass more lush than often is seen on these wild seashore reaches, enriched in the nearer foreground with deeper tones of green and tinges of brown among^ the taller herbage. In the middle di^ance, the gray and ru^y=gray sand is exposed — with a noticeable "■'■quality ' in the paint — and further to the right, shallow pools give back light reflections of the sky. From left and right in the mid* die di^ance rolling dunes projed:, grass=covered to the right, the brown sand revealed on the flanks of some at the left. A low, sandy, sedge=grown ^rip of beach extends between the two banks of dunes, over it being seen the deep, duU=blue sea, under a sky completely filled with gray, pearl?gray, smokysgray and creamy? white clouds, touched with rosy^pink. The clouds are moving, in an evanescent effed:, as though all would change presently. A happy, relaxing moment fixed, amid charming color, in the free atmosphere of the unpeopled coa^. Signed at the lower right, H. D. Martin, 1896. COLLECTION OF FRANK L. BABBOTT, ESQ. (56) A DISTANT VIEW OF CAEN Height, 12 inches; width, 22 inches TKe attradlion of tKis small and Kandsome canvas lies largely in tke quality of tke moi^ foreground, tke atmospheric after ^orm effedls, and tke expansiveness of tke view comprehended and sugge^ed within the mode^ material limits to which the painter has con? fined himself. Under a lowering dusky?gray ^orm^ cloud white clouds are massed above a far horizon. A broad foreground of green pa^ure or wild land, travs ersed diagonally by a wandering, irregular path, shares with the atmosphere the feeling of wetness after a passing shower. Across it in the middle di^ance a line of dark woods on high land, casing their shadow forward, are seen before and above a low^lying light landscape, illumined fi:'om the Hghter clouds of the sky, and in the di^ance beyond rise the towers, domes, and the mass of lower buildings of the city, in silhouette on high land across the valley. Martin's last exhibit at the National Academy of Design, in 1894, when the painting was shown as a loan by Mr. Du Fais. Signed at the lower left, H. D. Martin. PROPERTY OF JOHN DU FAIS, ESQ. 146 (57) THE BROOK Height, 13 inches; width, 20 inches Out of the fatnesses of a fore^ a clear brook comes into view near tke center of the canvas, in tke middle di^ance, and passes from sigkt in tke foreground at tke left. Tke tkick foliage of tke fore^ closes out all of tke sky save a narrow, irregular, inverted?cone* skaped space, over tke spot wkere tke krook emerges, and kere it discloses an even tone of ligkt gray cloud. Tke krook, at times rippling over flat ^ones, refledls tke green of tke surrounding leafage, or is dark in tke skadows of tke bank, and again is freaked witk wkite wkere tke ligkt catckes its motion. Higk above it on tke left tke bank rises ^eep, out of tke pidlure, as tkougk tke brook kad kere cut for itself a gorge, tke rugged declivity marked by verdure wkerever vege* tation kas been able to gain bold. From a point on tke slope an old tree of double trunk kas been partly dis? lodged but ^ill cUngs tenaciously to its rooting, its crooked trunks and branckes projedling across tke ckasm and skooting up ^ruggling foliage toward tke ligkt. Woods and busk are dense on tke rigkt, in many tones of green, in tke middleground and dis? tance, and on tkis side tke land slopes to a low, flat and ^ony foreground clearing, wkere yellowisk?green and rick, fuU^green kerbage flouriskes amid smootk gray ^ones and covers tke eartk about tkem. Signed at the lower right, H. D. Martin, 1894. PROPERTY OF MRS. BURTON MANSFIELD. (58) NORMANDY TREES Height, 28 inches; width, 36 inches A glimpse of tKe blue and wKite of a summer sky, between two groups of great trees, one in tbe imme? diate foreground, at the left, and tbe otber, at tbe rigbt, beginning in tbe middle di^ance and extending balfway down to tbe borizon. In tbe rigbt foreground a bit of water mirroring tbe sbadows and tbe bgbt. Tbe foliage is full of warm toucbes of yellow, brown and green, barmonizing deligbtfully witb tbe coloring of tbe sky. Signed at the right, H. D. Martin. William T. Evans Collection, 1900. THREE HUNDRED COPIES OF THIS BOOK ON DUTCH HANDMADE PAPER PRIVATELY PRINTED BY FREDERIC FAIRCHILD SHERMAN