Softcover
1996
by Carstensen, Nancy Stillwagon
Case Western Reserve University, 1996. Softcover. VG- (Text is clear; illus. are muddy due to photocopying process, as often happens; identity mark from previous gallery owner on first page.). Dissertation. Spiral-bound. Photocopied from microfilm by UMI. 342 pp., BW illus. Dissertation. "Presents a unique perspective on the paintings of women in interiors by the Boston painter Edmund C. Tarbell [1862-1938] by highlighting the correspondences between the conservative artistic, cultural, and ethical climate of Tarbell's New England venue at the fin de siecle and the artist's moralizing and seemingly anachronistic pictures. The artist's biography and seventeenth-century Puritan heritage are considered as factors which intersect with the themes represented in his paintings. While the Boston School painters in general eschewed depicting their time, none did so as assiduously as Tarbell." (abstract).
(Inventory #: 155384)