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On Bos'n's Hill

On Bos'n's Hill

1901
(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
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

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

Description

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.
  • 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
  • Jewel City: Art of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum (October 17, 2015-January 10, 2016).
    Cleveland Collects American Art of the Gilded Age. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 23-May 18, 2003).
    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).
    Washington, D.C., The White House, Extended loan from Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mann (1976-1992); for the Carter Collection.
    New York, Wickersham Gallery, American Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors (1968)
    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, Knoedler & Co. (February, 1918), cat. no. 1.
    San Francisco, Palace of Fine Arts, Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915), cat. no. 3958.
    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.
    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.
    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.
    Worcester, MA, Worcester Art Museum, A Collection of Paintings by Edmund C. Tarbell of Boston (1905), cat. no. 10, lent by S.D. Bush.
    Boston, St. Boltoph Club (21 April-10 May 1902), cat. no. 23; (see References: Ten American Painters; painting misspelled in this).
    New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries (31 March-14 April 1902), cat. no. 27; (see References: Ten American Painters).
    Cincinnati, Cincinnati Art Museum, Ninth Annual Exhibition (1902).
    Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Sixth Annual Exhibition ( 7 November 1901-1 January 1902), cat. no. 94.
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