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Edmund Tarbell
Josephine and Mercie, 1908
The painter's New Castle, New Hampshire home is the setting for this refined interior showing his two eldest children. Josephine, seen at the left at age 20 -- Mercie was six years her junior -- was named after her father's friend and fellow painter Joseph Rodefer DeCamp. Unlike his contemporaries, Tarbell did not usually idealize his subjects; the girls assume natural postures, Josephine bending over writing paper and Mercie slouching in an armchair, engrossed in a book. |