Rendering Beauty: Edmund C. Tarbell and The Ten

Edmund Charles Tarbell (1862-1938) was one of the original members of the group known as The Ten.  Exhibiting together for the first time in New York City in 1898, The Ten were a group of ten American artists who chose to exhibit together independently from the large annual exhibitions of the Society of American Artists and the National Academy of Design.

Light and Landscape: Theodore Robinson’s Path to American Impressionism

American painter Theodore Robinson (1852-1896) was academically trained at The Art Institute of Chicago, the National Academy of Design, and the Art Students League in New York before moving to France in 1876 to study at the École des Beaux-Arts. During his time there, Robinson studied at the atelier of the French painter Jean-Leon Gerome whose interest in Academicism was in line with Robinson’s interest in portraiture.