EDMUND CHARLES TARBELL
American (Boston) 1862-1938
“GIRL READING”
Pencil on Paper; Signed lower left
Housed in a fine carved wood and gilt frame
Bearing a "Foster Brothers, Boston" label
Museums: 27 including The Metropolitan, White House, Boston Museum, Los Angeles County Museum
Books: 146, including Edmund C. Tarbell and the Boston School of Painting (1889-1980), Patricia Jobe Pierce
Periodicals: 18
Image Size: 11-3/4" x 7-3/4
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TARBELL, Edmund Charles (1862-1938)
Birth place: West Groton, MA
Addresses: Boston, 1889-90; Dorchester, MA, 1891; Boston, 1893-1913, Washington, DC, 1917-22; Boston/New Castle, NH
Profession: Painter, teacher
Studied: apprenticed to a lithographer at age 15; Boston Normal Art School; Boston Museum of Fine Art School, with O. Grundmann,
1879; Académie Julian, Paris with Boulanger and Lefebvre, 1884-86; W.T. Dannat in Paris, c.1886-88.
Exhibited: Paris Salon, 1886; Boston Art Club, 1887-1909; National Academy of Design (prizes, 1890, 1894; medals, 1908, 1929);
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art Annual, 1892-1913, 1920-38 (gold 1895 & 1911); St. Botolph Club, Boston (including 1898 solo);
World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893; Art Club of Philadelphia, 1895 (gold); Society of American Artists, 1893 (prize);
Tennessee Expo, Nashville, 1897 (prize); with Ten American Painters, 1898-1919; Worcester Museum of Art, 1900 (prize), 1904 (prize);
Boston Charitable Mechanics' Assn. (med.); Paris Expo, 1900 (med.); Carnegie Institute, 1901 (prize), 1904 (prize), 1909 (prize),
1928-29 (prize); Art Institute of Chicago, 1907 (prize); Corcoran Gallery biennials, 1907-37 (14 times; including gold medal, 1910);
Pan-Pacific Expo, San Fran., 1915 (prize); Newport Art Association, 1935 (prize);
memorial exhibition, Boston Museum of Fine Art, 1938.
Member: Associate National Academy, 1904, National Academy, 1906; Boston Guild of Artists; Ten American Painters;
U.S. Public Art League, 1896; National Arts Committee, Wash., DC
Work: Corcoran Gallery of Art; Cincinnati Art Museum; Rhode Island School of Design; Boston Museum of Fine Art; Worcester
Museum of Art; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art Annual; Wilstach College, Philadelphia; New Mexico Art Association; Metropolitan
Museum of Art; Canajoharie (NY) Library and Art Gallery; Fine Arts Academy, Buffalo; NPG National Portrait Gallery, Washington,
DC; War Dept., Washington, DC; Butler Art Institute; Massachusetts Senate Chamber, State House, Boston; Smith College
Comments: Tarbell began formal art studies with Grundmann at the Boston Museum of Fine Art, where he met and became friends
with Frank Benson. Tarbell was considered the leader of the Boston Impressionists, and his numerous devout students were called
"Tarbellites." His Impressionist works were primarily built around figures of women, shown in brilliantly, colorful outdoor scenes. Around
1900 he began focusing on interior scenes, usually showing young women reading, sewing, or in conversation; these, in the handling of light
and color recall Vermeer. Tarbell insisted on the importance of technique and his well-crafted portraits came into high demand in
Washington, DC, where he painted Presidents Wilson and Hoover, among others (in 1919 he was chosen by the National
Committee to create a pictorial record of Allied leaders of WWI).
Teaching: BMFA Boston Museum of Fine Art School (1889-1912), Corcoran School Art (1917-22).
Sources: WW38; Baigell, Dictionary; 300 Years of American Art, 570;
Gerdts, American Impressionism, 114-18, 201-03, 315 (note 14);
Patricia Jobe Pierce, Edmund C. Tarbell and the Boston School of Painting 1889-1980 (Hingham, Mass., 1980);
Falk, Exh. Record Series.
This biography is drawn from the 'Who Was Who in American Art' , the reference book on the cultural life in the United States.
Museums: (27)
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Boston Museum of Fine Art
Butler Institute of American Art
Cincinnati Art Museum
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Crocker Art Museum
De Young Museum
El Paso Museum of Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Art at Brigham Young University
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
National Academy of Design Museum
National Gallery of Art
National Portrait Gallery
Oklahoma City Museum of Art
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Smith College Museum of Art
Smithsonian American Art Museum
The Arkell Museum at Canajoharie
The University of Michigan Museum of Art
The Washington County Museum of Fine Arts
The White House
Whitney Museum of American Art
Worcester Museum of Art
Yale University Art Gallery
Books: (126) Listed in all Major Art Indices; Selections include:
Harvey, Eleanor Jones, An Impressionist Sensibility: The Halff Collection
Weinberg, H Barbara; S Larkin, American Impressionists Abroad And at Home
Kloss, William, A Nation's Pride, Art in the White House
Gerdts, William H, Pfeil Collection, Masterworks of American Impressionism
Hiesinger, Ulrich W. Impressionism in America, The Ten American Painters
Gerdts, William H, Ten American Painters
Danly, Susan Light, Air, and Color: American Impressionist Paintings from PAFA
Salinger, Margaretta, Masterpieces of American Painting, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Pierce, Patricia Jobe, Edmund C Tarbell and the Boston School of Painting (1889-1980)
Pierce, Patricia Jobe, The Ten
Eisler, Colin, American Drawings, Paul Magriel Collection
Perlman, Bennard B, The Immortal Eight, American Painting from Eakins to the Armory Show
Gerdts, William H* American Impressionism: The Henry Gallery
National Academy of Design. Artists by Themselves, Artists’ Portraits from the National Academy of Design
Periodicals: (18)
American Art Review, 2006 December, An Impressionist Sensibility: The Halff Collection
American Art Review, 2005 June, Paintings at Indianapolis Museum
American Art Review, 2004 October, Guild of Boston Artists: 90th Anniversary
American Art Review, 2004 August, The Henri Circle & the American Impressionist
American Artist, 2004 June, Quick Sketches, Editors, American Artist
American Arts Quarterly, 2003 August, Redeeming Boston: The Urban Landscape
American Art Review, 2002 December, The Terra Museum of American Art
American Artist, 2002 May, Recommended Books, Editors, American Artist
The Magazine Antiques, 2001 November, Family Pictures
American Art Review, 2001 October, The Paintings of Edmund C Tarbell
American Art Review, 2001 October, American Impressionists Abroad
American Art Review, 2000 February, Louis Comfort Tiffany's 1893 Chapel
The Magazine Antiques, 1999 January, Museum Accessions
The Magazine Antiques, 1997 November, Worcester's Pioneering Painting
American Art Review, 1997 October, American Impressionism
American Art Review, 1996 December, American Works on Paper
American Art Review, 1996 August, Impressionism at Canajohari Library
American Art Review, 1995 December, At Home With Art
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