American, 1896 - 1984
De Martini studied briefly at the Academy school [*** date], and with Leon Kroll and David Garfunkle. In the early 1930s he was a member of the Yaddo art colony; in this period he concentrated on the figure in sombre grouping compositions and portraits. However, in the mid-30s he began spending about half of each year in Rockport, Maine, and his subject matter became the seascapes with which he was eventually most identified. An expressive painter of nature as recalled, rather than as observed, a reviewer of a 1845 exhibition of his work at the Macbeth Gallery, New York, characterized De Martini as a successor to the esthetic of Albert Pinkham Ryder.
His awards included a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. For paintings shown in Academy annual exhibitions he received the Palmer Prize in 1950, 1971, and 1977, and the Salmagundi Prize in 1979. De Martini was for a time a visiting professor at the University of Georgia in Athens.
His awards included a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. For paintings shown in Academy annual exhibitions he received the Palmer Prize in 1950, 1971, and 1977, and the Salmagundi Prize in 1979. De Martini was for a time a visiting professor at the University of Georgia in Athens.
