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Creator:
Tarbell, Edmund Charles, 1862-1938  Search this
Place of publication, production, or execution:
Other
Physical Description:
7 Linear feet
Arrangement:
This collection is arranged as 8 series. Series 1: Biographical Material, 1862-circa 1980, bulk 1884-1938 (0.4 linear feet; Boxes 1, 8, 18, OV 9) Series 2: Correspondence, 1877-circa 1993, bulk 1883-1930 (1.1 linear feet; Boxes 1-2) Series 3: Writings, circa 1880-circa 2000 (0.2 linear feet; Box 2) Series 4: Diaries, 1887-1938 (0.3 linear feet; Box 2) Series 5: Personal Business Records, 1889-circa 1951 (0.3 linear feet; Boxes 2-3) Series 6: Printed Material, 1877-1979 (1.7 linear feet; Boxes 3-4, 8, OV 10-15) Series 7: Scrapbook, circa 1902-circa 1916 (0.2 linear feet; Box 8) Series 8: Photographic Material, circa 1845-circa 1990 (2.7 linear feet; Boxes 4-8, 16-17, MGP 1, MGP 5)
Access Note / Rights:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center. Contact Reference Services for more information.
Summary:
The papers of Boston painter Edmund Charles Tarbell measure 7 linear feet and date from circa 1855-circa 2000, bulk 1885-1938. The collection includes biographical material, correspondence, writings, diaries, personal business records, printed material, photographs, albums, glass plate negatives, and a scrapbook.
Citation:
Edmund C. Tarbell papers, circa 1855-circa 2000, bulk 1885-1938. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Additional Forms:
The bulk of the collection was digitized in 2017 and is available on the Archives of American Art's website. Materials which have not been digitized include blank pages, blank versos of photographs, duplicates, and nitrate negatives. In some cases, exhibition catalogs and other publications have had their covers, title pages, and relevant pages scanned.
Material lent for microfilming is available on 35mm microfilm reel N68-103 at the Archives of American art offices and through interlibrary loan.
Funding:
Funding for the digitization of this collection was provided by The Walton Family Foundation and the Terra Foundation for American Art.
Use Note:
The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
Related Materials:
The Archives of American Art also holds material lent for microfilming (reel N68-103) including circa 75 unidentified and undated photographs, mostly of Tarbell's work and exhibitions, six exhibition catalogs in which his work appears, clippings, a sketch by Tarbell dated 1883, and a letter from Edward Redfield to "Mary." Lent materials were returned to the lender and are not described in the collection container inventory.
Biography Note:
Edmund Charles Tarbell (1862-1938) was a painter and educator based in Boston, Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
Language Note:
Collection is in English.
Provenance:
Mrs. John Schaffer (Mary Tarbell), daughter of Edmund Tarbell, lent material for microfilming in 1968. Tarbell's granddaughter, Mary Josephine Ferrell Cannon donated papers in 1989 and William P. Tarbell, Tarbell's great-grandson, donated several additions to the papers in 2017 and 2018.
Digitization Note:
This site provides access to the papers of Edmund Charles Tarbell in the Archives of American Art that were digitized in 2018, and total 5,701 images.
Location Note:
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 750 9th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001
Theme:
Lives of artists  Search this
Record number:
(DSI-AAA_CollID)8487
(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)210663
AAA_collcode_tarbedmu
Theme:
Lives of artists
Data Source:
Archives of American Art
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_210663