A Girl Mending
| Artist | Edmund Charles Tarbell (American, 1862–1938) |
|---|---|
| Title | A Girl Mending |
| Date | Ca. 1905 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | Stretcher: 30 1/8 x 25 1/4 in. (76.5 x 64.1 cm) Framed: 36 1/2 x 32 in. (92.7 x 81.3 cm) |
| Credit Line | Morton and Marie Bradley Memorial Collection, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University |
| Accession Number | 75.122 |
| This artwork is currently on view. | |
A woman sits alone in an interior, lit by a bank of windows on the left side of the composition. She looks down at a sewing project in her lap. The room is finely furnished and behind her, a door opens to another space.
Edmund C. Tarbell established himself as the leading Boston artist during his lifetime. As an art student in Paris, Tarbell was profoundly influenced not only by Impressionism but also by the seventeenth-century Dutch paintings he viewed in the city’s museums. He developed a painting style that fused Impressionism with the aura of Old Master painting; his work has, in fact, been dubbed “Vermeerian Impressionism,” a reference to Johannes Vermeer, the seventeenth-century painter from Delft. Like Vermeer, Tarbell is known for his quiet, domestic interiors, often featuring a woman engaged in an activity such as crocheting, reading, or, as here, mending
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"A Girl Mending | Collections Online." Collections Online. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2025. https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/collections-online/browse/object.php?number=75.122