Object details
Object number
P11s27
Creator(s)
Title
The Long Gallery, Fenway Court
Date
1922-1923
Medium
Watercolor on paper
Dimensions
20 x 15 cm (7 7/8 x 5 7/8 in.)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Inscribed (lower left): M / M
Provenance
Copied from a photograph by Thomas E. Marr in 1910 (Marr no. 16538).
Gift from the painter Martin Mower (1870-1960) to Isabella Stewart Gardner, 14 April 1923.
Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Bibliography
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), p. 250. (as 1922-1923)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 67. (as 1922-1923, although it depicts the Long Gallery as it appeared before its rearrangement in 1914)
Rollin Hadley. “Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 8, no. 15 (13 Dec. 1964), p. 2.
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 171-72, ill. (as 1922-1923)
Gallery
Macknight Room
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