Interior, Green Street

Though his primary interest was landscape, Garber also had great success with interior works. Interior, Green Street is a genre painting of Garber’s wife quietly stitching while rocking in the corner of a sun-lit room. The attention to light in the work, as it relates to the mood of a scene, is common in Garber’s work. Garber studied at the Cincinnati Academy, and later at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he was inspired by the works of Thomas Eakins. Garber went on to study in Europe, but brought little of the European artistic ideals back with him to the United States, where he became a faculty member at his alma-mater, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Like many of his contemporaries, Garber was a member of the National Academy.