Edmund (Charles) Tarbell

Painter, born in West Croton, Massachusetts, USA. He was based in Boston, studied at the Boston Museum School (1879), where he later taught (1889–1913), and in France (1883–8). He was a member of the Ten (1898–1919), largely an Impressionist group, and his paintings, such as ‘In the Orchard’ (1891), have recently been re-evaluated and praised.

Edmund Charles Tarbell (April 26, 1862 – August 1, 1938) was an American Impressionist painter.

Tarbell was born at West Groton, Massachusetts, to a family that immigrated from England in 1647.

As a youth, Tarbell took evening art lessons from George H. In 1879, he entered the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, studying under Otto Grundmann.

Because of his talent, Tarbell was encouraged to continue his education in Paris, France, then center of the art world.

Tarbell returned to Boston in 1886, earning a living as an illustrator, private art instructor and portrait painter. In 1919, Tarbell became principal of the art school at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

An 1891 painting entitled "In the Orchard" established his reputation as an artist.

Throughout his career, Tarbell's wife and their four children (Josephine, Mercie, Mary and Edmund A.) would be his most convenient models.

He limned portraits of many notables of his day, including industrialist Henry Clay Frick, Yale University President Timothy Dwight, and U.S. Presidents Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover.

While teaching at the Museum School in Boston, Tarbell lived first in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and later at the former Hotel Somerset in Boston, not far from his atelier in the Fenway Studios on Ipswich Street.

Tarbell's paintings hang in numerous American art collections and museums, including the White House.

Paintings:

1890 - Three Sisters 1890 - Woman in White 1891 - A Girl Sewing in an Orchard 1891 - In the Orchard 1892 - Girl With Horse 1892-3 - The Bath 1893 - Mother and Child in Pine Woods 1893 - A Summer Idyll 1893 - An Amethyst 1894 - Arrangement in Pink and Gray 1896 - Girl's Head And Shoulders 1897 - Girl in Pink and Green 1898 - Blue Veil 1899 - My Family at Cotuit 1899 - Across The Room 1900 - A Sketch 1902 - Schooling The Horses 1904 - Girl Crocheting 1904 - By the River (Riverbank) 1904 - Summer Breeze 1906 - A Girl Mending 1906-7 Girls Reading 1907 - Preparing For The Matinee 1907 - New England Interior 1907 - Josephine And Mercie 1909 - Girl Reading 1909 - Piscataqua River 1911 - My Children in the Woods 1911 - Woman With Corsage 1912 - Mercie Cutting Flowers 1912 - Dreamer 1913 - Reverie 1914 - Young Girl Studying 1914 - My Family 1916 - Nell and Elinor 1919 - Mary and the Venus 1922 - Mother and Mary 1926 - Peonies And Iris 1928 - Marjorie and Little Edmund