Object details
Accession number
P11n16
Primary Creator
Ralph Wormeley Curtis
(Boston, 1854 - 1922, Beaulieu-sur-Mer)
Full title
A Japanese Tea-House
Creation Date
1891
Provenance
Gift from the artist to Isabella Stewart Gardner in July 1891.
Marks
Signed and inscribed (lower left): Mrs. Gardner from her friend Ralph Curtis
Dimensions
32 x 50 cm (12 5/8 x 19 11/16 in.)
Display Media
Watercolor on 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
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 71.
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of the Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), p. 117
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 68-69 ill.
Hilliard Goldfarb and Susan Sinclair. Isabella Stewart Gardner: Woman and the Myth. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1994), pp. 16 ill., 34 no. 6
Alan Chong and Noriko Murai. Journeys East: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Asia. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2009), pp. 23 fig. 12, 48 n. 40.
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