Preparing for the Matinee, Edmund Charles Tarbell; oil on canvas, roughly 45 x 35″ (114 x 89 cm); link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable (very) high resolution file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Indianapolis Museum of Art, which also Read More …
“Illuminating Tarbell” is the title of an exhibition of the work of the terrific American painter Edmund Charles Tarbell that is on view at Discover Portsmouth, in Portsmouth NH until June 3, 2016. It features a concurrent exhibit of contemporary painters working in the tradition Read More …
In the Orchard, Edmund Charles Tarbell Link is to large, downloadable file on Wikipedia; original is in the collection of the Terra Foundation for American Art. Apparently, Edmund Tarbell — one of most noted of the painters classified as “American Impressionists” — liked to say Read More …
Mother and Child in a Boat, Edmund Charles Tarbell On Google Art Project. Hi-res downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. I had the pleasure of seeing this in person as part of a show of Tarbell’s work Read More …
Edmund Charles Tarbell was the primary founder of the “Boston School” of American Impressionism, one of the most important of the painters called American Impressionists, and to my mind, one of the great American painters in general. Since I last wrote about Tarbell back in Read More …
Across the Room, Edmund Charles Tarbell. In Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use Fullscreen link and Download arrow. See my previous posts on Edmund Tarbell, and here. He must have considered this a “sketch”, but… wow.