Mercie Cutting Flowers, by Edmund Charles Tarbell, 1912, oil on canvas - Currier Museum of Art - Manchester, NH - DSC07900

Edmund Charles Tarbell (1862–1938) was an American Impressionist painter. A member of the Ten American Painters, his work hangs in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art, DeYoung Museum, National Academy Museum and School, New Britain Museum of American Art, Worcester Art Museum, and numerous other collections. He was a leading member of a group of painters which came to be known as the Boston School.