Object details
Accession number
P3w36
Primary Creator
Karl Frederik Nordström
(Stenkyrka, 1855 - 1923, Drottningholm)
Full title
The Headland
Creation Date
1894
Provenance
Acquired by the Swedish artist Anders Zorn (1860-1920) from Karl Frederik Nordström at the National Romantic artists' colony, Varberg, summer 1894.
Gift from Anders Zorn to Isabella Stewart Gardner, Venice, October 1894.
Marks
Inscribed (lower left, in yellow pastel): KN (?) [in monogram]
Dimensions
35 x 45 cm (13 3/4 x 17 11/16 in.)
Display Media
Pastel on paper
Dimension Notes
Frame: 38 x 47 x 0.7 cm (14 15/16 x 18 1/2 x 1/4 in.)
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
Blue Room
Bibliography
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 1. (as by "Nordheim," probably a mondegreen for "Nordström")
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), p. 251. (as by Nordheim)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 35. (as by Nordheim)
Kjell Boström. "En kuriös attribution." Konsthistorisk Tidskrift, vol. 17 (1948), pp. 17-18, ill. (as by Nordström, 1894-1895)
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), p. 173, ill. (as by Nordström, about 1893-1895, when the artist lived in Varberg)
Michelle Facos. Swedish Impressionism’s Boston Champion: Anders Zorn and Isabella Stewart Gardner. Exploring Treasures in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum VI. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1993), p. 40, n31. (as by Nordström)
Anne-Marie Eze in Oliver Tostmann et al. Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2013), pp. 61, 160-61, n3, no. 26c. (as by Nordström, 1894)
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