Young Woman With a Hat
Edmund Charles Tarbell studied at the then newly formed School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He later returned as formidable teacher who helped make the school an important fixture in American art education of the… Read More
Horse Silk (Night Sights Series)
Robert Rauschenberg claimed that since he grew up in a ‘very plain environment,’ he had to appreciate the simple, everyday things he encountered in life. Such an appreciation led to his spearheading a part of the Pop art… Read More
Woman in a White Dress
Lawton Silas Parker studied at the Chicago Art Institute, the Academie Julian and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, as well as under the tutelage of William Merrit Chase. An original member of the Givernois Colony in… Read More
Flowering Trees
Willard Leroy Metcalf’s renown as a pivotal painter of the New England landscape stemmed from his studies with Georgia Loring Brown in Massachusetts and also in Paris alongside Edmund Tarbell and Frank Benson. He earned a living through… Read More
Washington at Mt. Vernon
Best known as an American Impressionist, Frederick Childe Hassam’s highly successful career was winding to a close by the 1930s. But his work in etching still commanded attention. Three years before his death in 1935, Hassam contributed the… Read More
Standing Child
Frank Weston Benson studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, along with Edmund Tarbell. Like Tarbell, He later returned to the school to teach. Under the leadership of Benson and Tarbell, the school… Read More