Cleveland Museum of Art

On Bos'n's Hill

Edmund C. Tarbell

Date

1901

Medium

oil on canvas

Culture

America, early 20th Century

Department

American Painting and Sculpture

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

Located in New Castle, New Hampshire, Bos’n’s Hill was a favored leisure spot for Tarbell’s family, which included four children. It provides the luminous setting for this depiction of the artist’s wife, Emeline, who strolls through the landscape with a parasol to protect her from the sun, while a beloved pet dog accompanies her. Four years later, the couple purchased a summer house nearby. The artist was a popular art professor in Boston, and his followers were nicknamed "Tarbellites."

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