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as Supervisor of Educational Work, charged with reorganizing the Museum School, which until then managed its own affairs. An upheaval ensued. He lectured Tarbell how to teach, then how to paint. Tarbell was incensed, making it no secret that he considered Elliott artistically inept. In December,
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Edmund Tarbell contributed to America's place in the world of art. To him and his work Europe turned its eyes in admiration, as did the whole people in America. Tarbell's works were honest works. In him was none of the transient
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In 1889, Tarbell assumed the position of his former mentor, Otto Grundmann, at the Museum School, where he was a popular teacher. He gave pupils a solid academic art training: before they learned to paint, they had to
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Tarbell resigned together with Frank W. Benson, his friend and fellow instructor. The men in 1913 discussed founding a society to encourage art and artists in the city. With financial backing from
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established his reputation as an artist. It depicts his wife with her siblings at leisure. Tarbell became famous for impressionistic, richly hued images of figures in
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which brought notoriety to others. Tarbell canvases will be speaking to the world centuries from now. His character was as true as his art.
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Tarbell was encouraged to continue his education in Paris, France, then center of the art world. Consequently, in 1883 he entered the
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movement then sweeping the city's galleries. That duality would inform his work. In 1884, Tarbell's education included a
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Two years after returning to Boston, Tarbell married Emeline Arnold Souther, an art student and daughter of a prominent
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to recommend English artists as instructors. Tarbell and Benson, advocates of indigenous talent, would again resign.
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as studio props. Tarbell also collected salvaged architectural elements; his studio's facade featured a Federal
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While teaching at the Museum School in Boston, Tarbell and his family lived from 1886 until 1906 in the
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section of Dorchester, the house belonging to his stepfather, David Frank Hartford. Then they lived on
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interiors; these studies of light and tone are executed with restrained brushwork and color.
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Tarbell painted portraits of many notable individuals, including industrialist
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Edmund C. Tarbell was born in the Asa Tarbell House, which stands beside the
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As a youth, Tarbell took evening art lessons from George H. Bartlett at the
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doorway. In the new living room added to the main house, he installed a
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opened in 1914. Tarbell was its first president, serving through 1924.
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attributed to Ebenezer Dearing (1730–1791), a master Portsmouth ship
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Tarbell returned to Boston in 1886, where he began his career as an
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But in 1912, the Museum of Fine Arts hired Huger Elliott from the
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to Italy, and the following year to Italy, Belgium, Germany and
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and the ocean. He was an early and avid proponent of the
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Edmund C. Tarbell and the Ideas of the "Boston School"
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in 1929, and served as juror of painting at the 1904
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Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Edmund Charles Tarbell

Groton, Massachusetts
New Castle, New Hampshire
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Impressionism
Ten American Painters
American Impressionist
Ten American Painters
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Metropolitan Museum of Art
National Gallery of Art
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Corcoran Gallery of Art
DeYoung Museum
National Academy Museum and School
New Britain Museum of American Art
Worcester Art Museum
Boston School
Squannacook River
West Groton, Massachusetts
typhoid fever
Civil War
shoemaking
frontier town
French and Indian Wars

Massachusetts Normal Art School
apprenticed
Boston

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