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Isabella Stewart Gardner (April 14, 1840 – July 17, 1924) was an American art collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts. She founded the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Gardner possessed an energetic intellectual curiosity, a love of travel, and, most importantly, money.
Coolidge then gave the painting to Gardner, and Sargent presented her with an album of pencil drawings he had made as preparatory sketches for the work. [4] El Jaleo was on exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. for a short time in 1992, on loan from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum for the first time since 1914. At ...
Gardner appointed her secretary and the former librarian of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Morris Carter (1877–1965) as the museum's first director. Carter catalogued the entire collection and wrote Gardner's definitive biography, Isabella Stewart Gardner and Fenway Court. George L. Stout (1897–1978) was the second director. The father of ...
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Sargent's friends and supporters included Henry James and Isabella Stewart Gardner, of both of whom he painted portraits, and Gardner also commissioned and purchased works from Sargent and sought his advice on other acquisitions. [103] Edward VII [104] and Paul César Helleu were also friends and supporters of Sargent.
Isabella Stewart Gardner: 1888: Portrait: Oil on canvas: 190 cm × 81.2 cm 74 + 13 ⁄ 16 in × 31 + 15 ⁄ 16 in: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Massachusetts [14] Morning Walk: 1888: Portrait: Oil on canvas: 67.31 cm × 50.16 cm 26 + 1 ⁄ 2 in × 19 + 3 ⁄ 4 in: Private collection Mrs. Adrian Georg Iselin (Elanora O'Donnell) 1888 ...
The stolen works were originally procured by art collector Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840–1924) and were intended for permanent display at the museum with the rest of her collection. Among them was The Concert , one of only 34 known paintings by Johannes Vermeer and thought to be the most valuable unrecovered painting in the world.
The Decorative Arts Wing was built in 1928, and expanded in 1968. An addition designed by Hugh Stubbins and Associates was built in 1966–1970, and another expansion by The Architects Collaborative opened in 1976. The West Wing, now the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art, was designed by I. M. Pei and opened in 1981. [8]