Object details
Object number
P33s57
Creator(s)
Willard Thomas Sears
(New Bedford, 1837 - 1920, Boston)
Title
Design for the Courtyard of Fenway Court
Date
1900
Medium
Pencil and watercolor on wove paper
Dimensions
61.6 x 99.7 cm (24 1/4 x 39 1/4 in.)
Provenance
Commissioned from Willard T. Sears by Isabella Stewart Gardner in 1900.
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.
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.
Alex Eliopoulos, "From Venice to the Fenway: Architecturual Elements in the Courtyard," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 6 April 2021, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/venice-fenway-architectural-elements-courtyard
Nathaniel Silver and Diana Seave Greenwald. Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life (Boston, 2022), p.6, ill.
Gallery
Vatichino
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