Many American artists traveled to Paris, France, to further their careers. Several of the American portraitists, realists, impressionists, and abstract artists that studied, lived, and worked in Paris, France during the late 19th and early 20th centuries wrote letters home to family and friends describing their lives there. One of these artists was Edmund Charles Tarbell, who wrote letters about his student life in 1880s Paris to his fianceé Emeline Souther.
Many American artists traveled to Paris, France, to further their careers. Several of the American portraitists, realists, impressionists, and abstract artists that studied, lived, and worked in Paris, France during the late 19th and early 20th centuries wrote letters home to family and friends describing their lives there. One of these artists was Edmund Charles Tarbell, who wrote letters about his student life in 1880s Paris to his fianceé Emeline Souther.
American Impressionist painter and educator Edmund Charles Tarbell (1862-1938) was based in Boston, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Tarbell studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (the Museum School), under the painter Otto Grundmann, and the Académie Julian in Paris, France, under Gustave-Rodolphe Boulanger and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre. Tarbell taught at the Museum School in Boston from 1889-1913 and later became the head of the Corcoran School of Art from 1918 to 1926.
Explore the fully digitized Edmund C. Tarbell papers on the Archives of American Art website!