Object details
Accession number
P11s26
Primary Creator
Arthur Pope
(Cleveland, 1880 - 1974, Westport, Massachusetts)
Full title
Nasturtiums at Fenway Court
Creation Date
1919
Provenance
Gift from the painter and original Gardner Museum trustee Arthur Pope to Isabella Stewart Gardner in 1919.
Dimensions
45 x 20 cm (17 11/16 x 7 7/8 in.)
Display Media
Oil on canvas
Web Commentary
On one of his spring visits to the Museum, Arthur Pope, a color theorist and professor of art at Harvard University, painted the annual spring display of bright orange flowering nasturtium vines. Isabella grew the plants at her home Green Hill, in Brookline, Massachusetts and hung them in the Courtyard around her birthday, April 14, a tradition which continues today.
Permanent Gallery Location
Macknight Room
Bibliography
Morris Carter. Isabella Stewart Gardner and Fenway Court (Boston, 1925; Reprint, Boston, 1972), p. 225.
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), pp. 273-74. (as 1919)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 67. (as 1919)
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), p. 188, ill. (as about 1919)
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