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Accession #	15.281
Artist	Homer Dodge Martin
Title	Normandy Coast
Date	1884
Medium	Oil on board
Dimensions	7 3/16 x 12 11/16 in. (18.3 x 32.2 cm)
Signed	Signed lower right: "Homer / Martin / 1884"
Credit Line	Bequest of Charles A. Schieren
Location	Visible Storage: Case 15, Screen B (Paintings)

Curatorial Remarks: About 1870 Martin began to shed the early influence of the Hudson River School on his art in favor of the less detailed and looser manner of the French Barbizon school, an informal network of mid-nineteenth-century artists who practiced plein air painting in the Forest of Fontainebleau, near Barbizon. Martin himself sketched around Barbizon in 1876 and later returned to France for an extended stay in Villerville, where he executed remarkably fresh, freely brushed outdoor paintings such as this one.