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Subject(s)

• Piscataqua River Region (N.H. and Me.)—In art—Exhibitions [Browse]
• Tarbell, Edmund Charles 1862-1938—Exhibitions [Browse]
• Tarbell, Edmund Charles 1862-1938—Influence—Exhibitions [Browse]

Organizer

Portsmouth Historical Society [Browse]

Host institution

Portsmouth Historical Society [Browse]

Related name

Portsmouth Marine Society [Browse]

Author

• Fogg, Jeremy G. [Browse]
• Dacey, Alastair, 1978- [Browse]

Series

• Publication (Portsmouth Marine Society) ; 35. [More in this series]
• Portsmouth Marine Society publication ; 35

Contains

Tarbell, Edmund Charles, 1862-1938. Works. Selections. [Browse]

Summary note

"Illuminating Tarbell is a unique two-part work devoted to the life and legacy of Edmund C. Tarbell, one of the major American Impressionist painters and the leader of the Boston School. Although often most closely associated with Boston, Tarbell maintained a home and studio in New Castle, New Hampshire, for more than thirty years and had an especially close relationship with this beautiful area. This book, published to accompany an exhibition at the Portsmouth Historical Society, illustrates and discusses many of his principal works, some never published before and several recently conserved. Based on new research into the holdings of the Tarbell Charitable Trust and other sources, Jeremy G. Fogg and Christopher Volpe examine Tarbell's career, emphasizing the importance of family and place to his artistic vision. Tarbell, throughout his life, was an effective and influential teacher. Today, nearly eighty years after his death, Tarbell's legacy lives on in the work of contemporary artists who embrace and espouse his philosophy about the dignity of art and emulate his techniques. Here, Alastair Dacey examines paintings by six outstanding members of this modern Tarbell school: Donald Demers, Paul Ingbretson, Jean Lightman, Mary Minifie, Colin Page, and Dacey himself. Dacey explores the concepts that underlie their work and the processes they use to implement their ideas, demonstrating both their individual abilities and the strength of this important and on-going artistic tradition in New England and the United States. The result is an extraordinary opportunity to see how Tarbell and later generations have illuminated their specific vision of truth and beauty"--Discover Portsmouth website.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Foreword / Kathleen Soldati
• Introduction / Susan Strickler
• Life and art on the Piscataqua. The genesis of an idea / Jeremy G. Fogg
• "A home of permanent beauty" : Edmund C. Tarbell on the Piscataqua / Christopher Volpe
• A portfolio of works by Edmund C. Tarbell
• Legacy in action. A personal note / Alastair Dacey
• A fundamental impulse / Alastair Dacey
• Six contemporary painters
• Acknowledgments
• Select bibliography
• Checklist of the exhibition.

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Other title(s)

• Life and art on the Piscataqua.
• Legacy in action.

ISBN

• 9780915819430 ((softback alk. paper))
• 0915819430 ((softback alk. paper))

LCCN

2016004023

OCLC

936234496

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