Landscape — About This Work
Homer Dodge Martin, 1896
About the Work
A rough shoreline meets distant sea in loose coloured strokes. Martin gives the watercolour an open structure, allowing the eye to move from the textured coast into a less definite distance.
The museum dates the sheet to 1896. Its simple title leaves the place unidentified, so the image is best approached through its recorded medium and the visible relationships of shore, water and sky.
The handling keeps individual strokes apparent within the landscape. At the scale of the original sheet, that material economy becomes part of the subject's presence, joining a recognisable coast with the immediacy of watercolour on paper.
The Work
Artist: Homer Dodge Martin
Title: Landscape
Date: 1896
Medium: Watercolor
Recorded dimensions: 34.4 × 24.8 cm (W × H)
Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art
Accession number: 1946.291
Print & Presentation
Palatine presentation: 40 × 50 cm Classic Frame, landscape.
The complete artwork is reproduced at its recorded scale, subject only to negligible whole-pixel rounding, without enlargement, reduction, cropping or distortion. The surrounding white presentation area accommodates the artwork within the framed presentation and is incorporated into the print rather than added as a separate mount.
Frame finishes: Black, White or Natural.
Paper & glazing: Enhanced Matte + Perspex; or Enhanced Matte + Moth-Eye.
Why Original Scale?
Most art-print shops offer the same image in a choice of Small, Medium and Large sizes. We take a different approach. For each edition, we begin with the recorded dimensions of the original work and reproduce the complete image at that scale, preserving its proportions and avoiding enlargement, reduction, cropping or distortion.
Source: Image: The Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0. In memory of Ralph King, gift of Mrs. Ralph King; Ralph T. Woods, Charles G. King; and Frances King Schafer. 1946.291.
Care: Display in a dry interior away from prolonged direct sunlight and sources of moisture.
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