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Edmund Charles Tarbell

Mother and Mary, 1922

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 112.1 x 127.5 cm (44 1/8 x 50 3/16 in.)

framed: 130.8 x 146.1 cm (51 1/2 x 57 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the Belcher Collection, Stoughton, Massachusetts

Accession Number

1967.1.1

Artists / Makers

Edmund Charles Tarbell (artist) American, 1862 - 1938

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Inscription

lower right: Tarbell.22.

Provenance

Purchased 1923 by Elva A. Belcher [Mrs. George E. Belcher], Stoughton, Massachusetts; her daughter, Gertrude H. Belcher [1872-1966], Brockton, Massachusetts; her estate; by bequest 1967 to Miss Beatrice Monk and John Hill, Boston; gift 1967 to NGA.

Associated Names

Belcher, Elva A.
Belcher, Gertrude H.
Hill, John, Mr.
Monk, Beatrice, Miss

Exhibition History

1923: Exhibition of Paintings by Edmund C. Tarbell, Guild of Boston Artists, Boston, February 1923, cat. no. not known.

1923: The Art Club of Philadelphia, January 1923, probably no cat.

1923: Thirty-sixth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago, November-December 1923, no. 218.

1923: Twenty-second Annual International Exhibition of Paintings, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, April-June 1923, no. 50.

1971: French Impressionists Influence American Artists, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, 1971, no. 170.

1989: Loan for display with permanent collection, Minneapolis Institute of Art, 1989-1990.

2001: Impressionism Transformed: The Paintings of Edmund C. Tarbell, The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington; Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, 2001-2002, pl. 40.

2007: Loan to display with permanent collection, Academy Art Museum, Easton, Maryland, 2007-2008.

Bibliography

1970: American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 114, repro.

1978: Reitz, Susie. Journal of the American Medical Association 240 (1 December 1978): 2516, 2538, color repro. cover.

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 247, repro.

1980: Pierce, Patricia Jobe. Edmund C. Tarbell and the Boston School of Painting 1889-1980. Pierce Galleries, Inc., Hingham, Massachusetts, 1980: 92, 106, 207, repro. 128.

1980: Wilmerding, John. American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1980: 130, repro.

1981: Williams, William James. A Heritage of American Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1981: detail 189, 194, repro. 195.

1988: Wilmerding, John. American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. Rev. ed. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1988: 152, repro.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 366, repro.

1998: Torchia, Robert Wilson, with Deborah Chotner and Ellen G. Miles. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part II. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1998: 200-202, color repro.