Salt Meadows
Artist
Homer Dodge Martin
American, 1836–1897
Datemid 1880s
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensionsoverall: 18 × 30 1/4 in. (45.7 × 76.8 cm)
frame: 26 7/8 × 38 5/8 × 2 1/4 in. (68.3 × 98.1 × 5.7 cm)
frame: 26 7/8 × 38 5/8 × 2 1/4 in. (68.3 × 98.1 × 5.7 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina
Object number52.9.22
On View
Not on viewProvenance**Created United States, mid 1880s; collection of the artist. Mrs. M. H. Butler, New York, until, 1923; Francis M. Weld, New York, 1924; to wife, Mrs. Francis M. Weld, 1951; [Macbeth Gallery, New York]; sold to NCMA, 1952.
Published ReferencesDana H. Carroll (described by), Fifty-Eight Paintings by Homer D. Martin (New York: privately printed, 1913), no. 11, illus.
W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 25.
American Paintings to 1900: Catalogue of Paintings, Vol. 1, 2nd ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1966), no. 40, illus. (b-w).
Nina Kasanof, "American Landscapes of the 19th Century in the North Carolina Museum of Art," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 8, no. 4 (June 1969), 3-15, discussed 9, illus. (b-w) fig. 10.
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, Macbeth Gallery, “Thirty Paintings by Thirty Artists: Fourteenth Annual Exhibition,” February 7–25, 1924, no. 15 (as Salt Meadows).
New York, NY, Macbeth Gallery, "Homer D. Martin Centennial Exhibition," February 4-17, 1936, no. 5 (as Salt Marshes, lent by Francis M. Weld, Esq.).
Durham, NC, North Carolina Central University, Museum of Art, "American Landscape, East, West," November 1- December 9, 1979.
Beaufort, NC, Carteret County Library, "Six American Landscape Paintings," September 13-22, 1986.
North Wilkesboro, NC, Wilkes Art Gallery, "American Landscapes from the North Carolina Museum of Art," March 18-April 5, 1988.
Fayetteville, NC, Fayetteville Museum of Art, "Bicentennial/Bicentennial: American Paintings and Audubon Prints from the North Carolina Museum of Art," October 29-December 3, 1989.
Asheville, NC, Asheville Art Museum, "Nineteenth and Twentieth Century American Paintings from the North Carolina Museum of Art," March 5-April 28, 1991.
Lexington, NC, Davidson County Art Guild, "(American Paintings from the Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art)," April 1992.
Chapel Hill, NC, Ackland Art Museum, "At Work in the Wilderness," January 14-March 20, 2011.
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