Figure 1.-- Tarbell painted 'Boy on the beach' early in his artistic career (1885). It is not his first work, but one of his first. The only thing we know for sure about the painting is the date and where it was painted. Tarbell even befored marriage would spend his summers along the New England coast. Another early paiting was a seaside scene. Despite an extremely prolific artistic career, it was only one of two paintings we know of outside of his son Edmund and children in family portraits he was commissioned to paint. We have no idea who the boy is, presumably just a boy he met enjoying summer at the beach.

Tarbell painted 'Boy on the beach' early in his artistic career (1885). It is not his first work, but one of his first. The only thing we know for sure about the painting is the date and where it was painted. Tarbell even befored marriage would spend his summers along the New England coast. Another early paiting was a seaside scene. Despite an extrenely proligic artistic career, it was only one of two paintings we know of outside of his son Edmund and children in family portraits he was commissioned to paint. We have no idea who the boy is, presumably just a boy he met enjoying summer at the beach. The boy wears a straw hat along with an old short waist and knee pants. The shirt waist had long sleeves. Short sleeves did not appear until well into the 20th century. Knee pants were becoming standard for boys by the 1880s, except in rural areas. The painting does not seem to be an impressionistic work, except perhaps somewhat the background.

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