Edmund C. Tarbell

Edmund C. Tarbell
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(1862–1938) American Impressionist painter (1862-1938)

Edmund C. Tarbell (USA, 1862–1938) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Edmund C. Tarbell belongs to the chapter ‘Post-Impressionism and Symbolism’ in this site’s history of art.

Edmund C. Tarbell was born in Groton and died in New Castle. Edmund C. Tarbell trained at Académie Julian. Edmund C. Tarbell worked in Boston and Paris. Wikidata associates Edmund C. Tarbell with Impressionism. Edmund C. Tarbell became a member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Ten American Painters, and American Academy of Arts and Letters. The awards include Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Hallgarten Prize. The students included Helena Sturtevant and William Jurian Kaula.

One of the best-known works is ‘Preparing for the Matinee’. The works belong mainly to the genre portrait. The catalogue has 25 works by Edmund C. Tarbell with free images. The dated works span the years 1888–1925. Works by Edmund C. Tarbell are held by several collections, among them Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and National Portrait Gallery. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Impressionism’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Eugène Jansson, Gustav Klimt, James Jebusa Shannon, Arthur Bowen Davies, and Robert Reid.