Object details
Accession number
P11e16
Primary Creator
Caleb Arnold Slade
(Acushnet, Massachusetts, 1882 - 1961, Truro, Massachusetts)
Full title
A Gateway in Tunis
Creation Date
about 1921
Provenance
Gift from the American artist Caleb Arnold Slade (1882-1961), Boston to Isabella Stewart Gardner, 12 November 1921.
Dimensions
23 x 20 cm (9 1/16 x 7 7/8 in.)
Display Media
Oil on brown paper
Web 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.
Permanent Gallery Location
Macknight Room
Bibliography
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), p. 342.
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 74.
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 239-40, ill.
Julie Carlson Eldred et al. True Visions: The Paintings of C. Arnold Slade (1882-1961). Exh. cat. (Dennis, Massachusetts: Cape Museum of Fine Arts, 2001), p. 12.
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