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On Bos'n's Hill

1901

Edmund C. Tarbell

(American, 1862–1938)

America, early 20th Century

Oil on canvas

Framed: 126 x 100.3 x 5.8 cm (49 5/8 x 39 1/2 x 2 5/16 in.); Unframed: 106 x 78 cm (41 3/4 x 30 11/16 in.); Former: 127.6 x 101.6 x 8.9 cm (50 1/4 x 40 x 3 1/2 in.)

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Mann and Robert A. Mann 1992.398

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208 American Gilded Age and Realism

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The artist was a popular art professor in Boston, and his followers were nicknamed "Tarbellites."

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Located in New Castle, New Hampshire, Bos’n’s Hill was a favored leisure spot for Tarbell’s family, which included four children. It provides the luminous setting for this depiction of the artist’s wife, Emeline, who strolls through the landscape with a parasol to protect her from the sun, while a beloved pet dog accompanies her. Four years later, the couple purchased a summer house nearby.

Citations

Strickler, Susan E., Linda Jones Docherty, Erica E. Hirshler, and Edmund Charles Tarbell. Impressionism Transformed: The Paintings of Edmund C. Tarbell. Manchester, N.H.: Currier Gallery of Art, 2001. illus. plate 12, p. 50; pp. 23, 51, 146

Pierce, Patricia Jobe, and John Douglas Ingraham. Edmund C. Tarbell and the Boston School of Painting, 1889-1980. Hingham, MA: Pierce Galleries, 1980. Mentioned: p. 85-93; Reproduced: pl. 26

Gerdts, William H. Ten American Painters. New York, NY: Spanierman Gallery, 1990. Reproduced: p. 21; Mentioned: 22-23, 126, 184

Buckley, Laurene. Joseph DeCamp: Master Painter of the Boston School. Munich, Germany; New York, NY: Prestel, 1995. Mentioned: p. 63-68; Reproduced: p. 78

Buckley, Laurene, and Edmund Charles Tarbell. Edmund C. Tarbell: Poet of Domesticity. New York, NY: Hudson Hills Press, 2001. Mentioned p. 51-59, 107-120; Reproduced: pl. 22

Strickler, Susan E., Linda Jones Docherty, and Erica E. Hirshler. Impressionism Transformed: The Paintings of Edmund C. Tarbell. Manchester, NH.: Currier Gallery of Art, 2001. Reproduced: p. 50; Mentioned: p. 23, 51, 146

Ganz, James A.ed. Jewel City: Art from San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exhibition. San Francisco, CA: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2015. P. 134; reproduced: p. 186, figure 60

Exhibition history

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Sixth Annual Exhibition ( 7 November 1901-1 January 1902), cat. no. 94.

New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries (31 March-14 April 1902), cat. no. 27; (see References: Ten American Painters).

Boston, St. Boltoph Club (21 April-10 May 1902), cat. no. 23; (see References: Ten American Painters; painting misspelled in this).

Cincinnati, Cincinnati Art Museum, Ninth Annual Exhibition (1902).

Worcester, MA, Worcester Art Museum, A Collection of Paintings by Edmund C. Tarbell of Boston (1905), cat. no. 10, lent by S.D. Bush.

New York, Montross Gallery, One-Man Exhibition [not official title], (1-14 February 1907).

Cincinnati, Cincinnati Art Museum, Fourteenth Annual Exhibition of American Art (1907), cat. no. 19.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Retrospective Exhibition of The Ten American Painters (11 April-3 May 1908), cat. no. 78 as lent by L.D. Bush.

Boston, Copley Hall, Exhibition of Paintings by Edmund C. Tarbell (May, 1912), cat. no. 27.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Exhibition of Contemporary Art (1912), cat. no. 27.

San Francisco, Palace of Fine Arts, Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915), cat. no. 3958.

New York, Knoedler & Co. (February, 1918), cat. no. 1.

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Frank W. Benson, Edmund C. Tarbell: Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Prints (16 November-15 December 1938), cat. no. 174, as lent by Mrs. Dacre Bush.

New York, Wickersham Gallery, American Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors (1968)

Washington, D.C., The White House, Extended loan from Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mann (1976-1992); for the Carter Collection.

Impressionism Transformed: The Paintings of Edmund C. Tarbell. Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH (organizer) (October 13, 2001-January 13, 2002); Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE (February 15-April 28, 2002); Terra Museum of American Art (May 11-July 21, 2002).

Cleveland Collects American Art of the Gilded Age. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 23-May 18, 2003).

Jewel City: Art of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum (October 17, 2015-January 10, 2016).

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