Object details
Accession number
P3n17
Primary Creator
Howard Gardiner Cushing
(Boston, 1869 - 1916, New York)
Full title
The Shower of Gold (Ethel Cochrane Cushing)
Creation Date
1908
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner probably from the artist for $850 in1910-1912.
Marks
Inscribed (lower right): Howard G. Cushing 1908
Inscribed (stenciled on the frame): Philadelphia, Academy of Fine Arts, No. 724
Dimensions
76.5 x 64 cm (30 1/8 x 25 3/16 in.)
Display Media
Oil on canvas
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, 1912), p. 1.
Exhibition of Memorial: Works by Howard Gardiner Cushing. Exh. cat. (New York: M. Knoedler & Co., 1916), p. 2, no. 44.
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), p. 117-18.
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), pp. 38-39.
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), p. 70, ill.
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