BEST AMERICAN ART by Alexandra Jopp

                               Edmund C. Tarbell By Alexandra A. Jopp Edmund Tarbell was renowned for his elegant, pearly interiors as well as vivacious outdoor paintings of his family. Mother and Mary , 1922 Edmund Tarbell was an American painter who won numerous prizes and medals and experimented with a range of forms of plein air painting . An extraordinary talent with the brush, he was inspired by seventeenth-century Dutch traditions and was especially fond of Vermeer. His environment was his own, and his wife and four children served as his models. He specialized in delicately finished, pearly interiors, and he devoted a significant part of his career to capturing images of young women pursuing domestic activities such as sewing or reading in elegantly decorated domestic rooms filled with antiquarian or oriental objects...

Resident of Chelsea, England, Alfred Egerton Cooper, was best known for portraits of King George VI and Winston Churchill, as well as for landscapes, coastal, harbor and horse racing scenes By Alexandra A. Jopp Alfred Egerton Cooper was an internationally acclaimed portraitist who also painted landscapes, coastal and harbor views of Great Britain and horse racing scenes. His style emphasized deep realism, and his glittering career hinged on the glamour he imparted to European royalty, Buckingham Palace , the British Parliament and rich and powerful public figures. Ambitious and technically skilled, he fulfilled countless royal commissions and had some of the most powerful and notable people in Britain sit for portraits. Alfred Egerton Cooper was born in 1883 in Tettenhall, Staffordshire , United Kingdom . Showing early artistic leanings, he studied at Bilston School of Art and on a scholarship at London ’s Royal College of Art, from which he gr...