About Edmund C. Tarbell
Edmund Charles Tarbell was an American Impressionist painter. A member of the Ten American Painters, his work hangs in the 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, and numerous other collections. He was a leading member of a group of painters which came to be known as the Boston School. Tarbell was its first president, serving through 1924. Tarbell became famous for impressionistic, richly hued images of figures in landscapes. His mother, Mary Sophia (Fernald) Tarbell, remarried a shoemaking-machine manufacturer.
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