Object details
Accession number
P11s4
Primary Creator
Martin Mower
(Lynn, Massachusetts, 1870 - 1960, Vancouver)
Full title
The Fountain
Creation Date
1918
Provenance
Painted in the garden of Caroline Sidney Sinkler (1860-1949), Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1918.
Gift from the painter Martin Mower (1870-1960) to Isabella Stewart Gardner, 1918.
Dimensions
25 x 36 cm (9 13/16 x 14 3/16 in.)
Display Media
Watercolor on paper
Web Commentary
In the summer of 1918 at the age of 78, Isabella rented a cottage named Wrong Roof from her friend Caroline Sinkler in Gloucester, Massachusetts. This picture, painted by her friend Martin Mower, shows Isabella reading a book in the garden. She suffered a stroke a year later and fondly recalled this time as her last vacation.
Permanent Gallery Location
Macknight Room
Bibliography
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), p. 251.
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 76.
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 171-72, ill.
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