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accession number: 1992.398
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On Bos'n's Hill, 1901. Edmund C. Tarbell (American, 1862–1938). 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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Mann and Robert A. Mann, 1992.398
title: On Bos'n's Hill
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creation date: 1901
creation date earliest: 1901
creation date latest: 1901
current location: 208 American Gilded Age and Realism
creditline: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Mann and Robert A. Mann
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culture: America, early 20th Century
technique: oil on canvas
department: American Painting and Sculpture
collection: American - Painting
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Edmund C. Tarbell (American, 1862–1938) - artist
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measurements: 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.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Impressionism Transformed: The Paintings of Edmund C. Tarbell
opening date: 2001-10-13T00:00:00
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).
title: Cleveland Collects American Art of the Gilded Age
opening date: 2003-02-23T00:00:00
Cleveland Collects American Art of the Gilded Age. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 23-May 18, 2003).
title: Jewel City: Art of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition
opening date: 2015-10-17T00:00:00
Jewel City: Art of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum (October 17, 2015-January 10, 2016).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Sixth Annual Exhibition ( 7 November 1901-1 January 1902), cat. no. 94.', 'opening_date': '1901-11-07T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries (31 March-14 April 1902), cat. no. 27; (see References: Ten American Painters).', 'opening_date': '1902-03-31T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Boston, St. Boltoph Club (21 April-10 May 1902), cat. no. 23; (see References: Ten American Painters; painting misspelled in this).', 'opening_date': '1902-04-21T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Cincinnati, Cincinnati Art Museum, Ninth Annual Exhibition (1902).', 'opening_date': '1902-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Worcester, MA, Worcester Art Museum, A Collection of Paintings by Edmund C. Tarbell of Boston (1905), cat. no. 10, lent by S.D. Bush.', 'opening_date': '1905-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'New York, Montross Gallery, One-Man Exhibition [not official title], (1-14 February 1907).', 'opening_date': '1907-02-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Cincinnati, Cincinnati Art Museum, Fourteenth Annual Exhibition of American Art (1907), cat. no. 19.', 'opening_date': '1907-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': '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.', 'opening_date': '1908-04-11T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Boston, Copley Hall, Exhibition of Paintings by Edmund C. Tarbell (May, 1912), cat. no. 27.', 'opening_date': '1912-05-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Exhibition of Contemporary Art (1912), cat. no. 27.', 'opening_date': '1912-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'San Francisco, Palace of Fine Arts, Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915), cat. no. 3958.', 'opening_date': '1915-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'New York, Knoedler & Co. (February, 1918), cat. no. 1.', 'opening_date': '1918-02-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': '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.', 'opening_date': '1938-11-16T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'New York, Wickersham Gallery, American Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors (1968)', 'opening_date': '1968-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Washington, D.C., The White House, Extended loan from Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mann (1976-1992); for the Carter Collection.', 'opening_date': '1976-01-01T00:00:00'}
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
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.
page number: illus. plate 12, p. 50; pp. 23, 51, 146
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Pierce, Patricia Jobe, and John Douglas Ingraham. Edmund C. Tarbell and the Boston School of Painting, 1889-1980. Hingham, MA: Pierce Galleries, 1980.
page number: Mentioned: p. 85-93; Reproduced: pl. 26
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Gerdts, William H. Ten American Painters. New York, NY: Spanierman Gallery, 1990.
page number: Reproduced: p. 21; Mentioned: 22-23, 126, 184
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“1993 Annual Report.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 81, no. 6 (July 1994): 143–218.
page number: Mentioned: p. 160
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25161457
Buckley, Laurene. Joseph DeCamp: Master Painter of the Boston School. Munich, Germany; New York, NY: Prestel, 1995.
page number: Mentioned: p. 63-68; Reproduced: p. 78
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Buckley, Laurene, and Edmund Charles Tarbell. Edmund C. Tarbell: Poet of Domesticity. New York, NY: Hudson Hills Press, 2001.
page number: Mentioned p. 51-59, 107-120; Reproduced: pl. 22
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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.
page number: Reproduced: p. 50; Mentioned: p. 23, 51, 146
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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.
page number: P. 134; reproduced: p. 186, figure 60
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IMAGES
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