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Edmund Tarbell (1862-1938) | The Ten American painters group

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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.
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 sensationalism which brought notoriety to others.
Tarbell canvases will be speaking to the world centuries from now. His character was as true as his art.
Tarbell won many art prizes and medals, an honorary doctorate from Dartmouth College in 1929, and served as juror of painting at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, and the 1926 Sesquicentennial Exposition.
He was elected a full member of the National Academy of Design in 1906, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1927.
Tarbell's funeral service was held in Boston at King's Chapel, his obituary reading: "Great American Painter Dies", The Boston Traveler, August 3, 1938. | Source: © Wikipedia



















Edmund Charles Tarbell🎨 è stato un pittore impressionista Statunitense🎨.
Appartenne al gruppo dei "Ten American Painters🎨" ad oggi le sue opere sono in gran parte conservate nello "Smithsonian American Art Museum", nella "Corcoran Gallery of Art", presso la "National Academy of Design" e nella Casa Bianca.
Edmund Tarbell ha contribuito ad assegnare all'America un posto prestigioso nel mondo dell'Arte.
A lui ed al suo lavoro l'Europa ha rivolto i suoi occhi con ammirazione, così come tutto il popolo americano.
Le opere di Tarbell erano opere oneste. In lui non c'era niente del sensazionalismo transitorio che portava notorietà agli altri.
Le tele di Tarbell parleranno al mondo tra secoli. Il suo carattere era vero quanto la sua arte.