Edmund Tarbell: So d. Small.

“After seeing the Salon I have come to the conclusion that E.C.T. is one very small chump,” wrote E.C.T. to his fiancé in 1886, “now more than ever impressed with the belief that this is the place to study and that I can’t get too much of it.” The this was Paris’s Académie Julian, a long way from his home his Massachusetts home, the E.C.T. was Edmund Ch…