Edmund Charles Tarbell (American, 1862-1938) Girl with Horse

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Edmund Charles Tarbell (American, 1862-1938)

Girl with Horse, alternatively titled Girl on an Pony
Signed "Edmund Tarbell." l.l., identified on labels on the frame backing from Vose
Galleries of Boston and Frances Aronson Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia.
Oil on canvas, 30 x 25 in. (76.3 x 63.7 cm),framed.
Condition: Lined, retouch. stable craquelure.

Literature: Patricia Jobe Pierce, Edmund C. Tarbell and the Boston School of Painting (1889-1980), Hingham, MA: Pierce Galleries, Inc., 1980, pp. 195-196.

N.B. Edmund Tarbell was one of the most influential painters and teachers on the Boston art scene at the turn of the 20th century. Born in West Groton, Massachusetts, Tarbell studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts beginning in 1879. He was encouraged by his instructors to further his academic training at the Academie Julien, which he did in 1883. Living and working in Paris at that moment, the young artist was also exposed to Impressionism. After touring Italy and other parts of Europe, Tarbell returned to Boston in 1886, and in 1889 he began teaching at the Museum School, where he developed a cadre of devoted students who became known as "the Tarbellites." Tarbell was an original member of The Ten, which included Chile Hassam, Willard Metcalf, and Frank Benson among others, who resigned from the Society of American Artists in 1897 to protest the politics and commercialization of the Society's exhibitions and who continued to exhibit together for the next twenty years. He co-founded the Guild of Boston Artists in 1914 and served as its first president. Later in his career he was Principal of the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C. Tarbell drew upon his family for much of his subject matter, painting portraits of domestic life and sun-filled plein air scenes in an Impressionist style. The painting at hand was painted c. 1892.
Estimate $150,000-200,000

Scattered retouch, u.l. dots in sky and with an area measuing 1 1/2 x 3/4 in,, u.c. across the tree trunk, in horse head and flanks, and dots in the girl's skirt.

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