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GHC Open House: Edmund Tarbell, 19th c.-Impressionist Painter, on View, Saturday Sept 28, 11 - 2
Whether capturing the light of a summer day, the turn of a woman’s head, or the pensive pose of his daughter reading, American impressionist Edmund C. Tarbell’s work has an immediacy that invites the viewer into the frame. Born in West Groton in 1862, Tarbell studied art from a young age, first privately, then at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, before continuing at the Académie Julian in Paris. Here he copied the Old Masters and got caught up in the then-cutting-edge Impressionist movement. At 24, after a European tour, Tarbell returned to Boston, where he gained prominence as an artist and influence as a teacher. He became a leading light in the Boston School of artists. Today, his work hangs in the MFA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC, the Worcester Art Museum, and many others.
To learn more about Edmund Tarbell, his era, his paintings, and the Tarbells of West Groton (among the earliest settlers, in 1663, of the Groton Plantation), drop into the Groton History Center’s Boutwell House, 172 Main Street, during Grotonfest, on Saturday, September 28, from 11 am to 2 pm. Seven stunning Tarbell artworks, on loan from the Tarbell Charitable Trust, await. All are welcome free of charge.
With the ambiance of a home and the holdings of a museum, the 1851 Boutwell House is a remarkable treasury. Get acquainted with the collections, and the influential artist born in the Asa Tarbell House on the Squannacook River.
The Edmund Tarbell show continues through early December and will be open on select weekends this autumn. For more about this and other GHC events, archival holdings, and membership information, email [email protected], visit grotonhistory.org; grotonhistory.org/Facebook, or call 978-448-0092. (Free admission thanks to the Groton Commissioners of Trust Funds. Universal access to the first floor and garden walkways.)
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