Object details
Accession number
P33s57
Primary Creator
Willard Thomas Sears
(New Bedford, 1837 - 1920, Boston)
Full title
Design for the Courtyard of Fenway Court
Creation Date
1900
Provenance
Commissioned from Willard T. Sears by Isabella Stewart Gardner in 1900.
Dimensions
61.6 x 99.7 cm (24 1/4 x 39 1/4 in.)
Display Media
Pencil and watercolor on wove paper
Web Commentary
Architect Willard T. Sears worked with Isabella Stewart Gardner to build her museum, which she called Fenway Court, between 1899 and 1901. This concept drawing is one of a series that Gardner kept after the project’s completion.
Permanent Gallery Location
Vatichino
Bibliography
Giovanna De Appolonia. "A Venetian Courtyard in Boston" in Elizabeth Anne McCauley et. al. Gondola Days: Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Palazzo Barbaro Circle. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2004), pp. 186-87, fig. 135.
Cynthia Saltzman. Old Masters, New World: America’s Raid on Europe’s Great Pictures (New York: Penguin Books, 2008), p. 83.
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