The work of John Button is a very intimate kind of art.  He shares with the audience his special awareness and appreciation of people, moments and places.  He could seize and render colors, textures and forms that were unique in time or location.  He lived in a world of physical, tangible reality from which he selected favorite images of his most exquisite perceptions.

John Button: Exhibition and catalogue

ROBERT ROSENBLUM

Bill Berkson

Currier Gallery of Art

<p>Edmund C. Tarbell (1862-1938) was renowned for his refined and distinctly New England interiors as well as vibrant outdoor paintings of his family. His work and his mentorship of two generations of artists came to define the Boston School. A member of Boston's Tavern and St. Botolph's clubs, he was also known to join a game of scrub baseball with workers from the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. Although he led two of the most prestigious art schools in the Northeast, he got himself expelled from high school to avoid college so he could paint full-time. Growing up in Boston, and living for 30 years in New Castle, New Hampshire, Tarbell was a quintessential cultured and unpretentious Yankee, and his art reflected his character. He remained committed to time-honored techniques and craftsmanship while creating his own innovations in depicting light and modern life on canvas.<br><br>Impressionism Transformed addresses the cultural context in which Tarbell developed as a leading painter of his day. Written by noted historians of American art and based in part on newly-available family papers, it features a select group of 42 paintings, including several recently-rediscovered works, which reflect the breadth of Tarbell's artistic achievements.</p>

Impressionism Transformed: The Paintings of Edmund C. Tarbell

Arts & Photography

Strickler, Susan

History & Criticism

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