Object details

Accession number

ARC.003917

Primary Creator

Dodge MacKnight (Providence, 1860 - 1950, Sandwich, Massachusetts)

Full title

Letter to Isabella Stewart Gardner

Creation Date

April 1909

Object Case

Modern Painters And Sculptors Case

Language

English

Display Media

Ink on paper

Web Commentary

Isabella Stewart Gardner’s friends often sent her gifts from their travels. In this letter, Gardner’s friend Dodge Macknight talks about a Spanish altar frontal he sent her for her birthday, noting that if Gardner did not like it, she could “exchange it at any time for anything I carry in stock.” Clearly Gardner appreciated the gift, because she chose to place the striking altar frontal in the Spanish Chapel.

Permanent Gallery Location

Long Gallery

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