Author : Boston, Mass. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 16,59 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300063417
"This book takes you through the collection gallery by gallery, illuminating the art and installations in each room"--From preface.
Author : Morris Carter
Publisher :
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 31,57 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
ISBN :
Author : Diana Greenwald
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 40,93 MB
Release : 2020-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781911300960
Isabella Stewart Gardner was a force to be reckoned with. She routinely went toe-to-toe with major museums and titans of industry to purchase masterpieces, she created a museum unlike any other, and she was famous for flouting the social conventions that governed women of her time. This book, however, shows another side of Isabella that readers may not expect: her love of dogs. Featuring black-and-white images from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum archives, this volume allows readers to meet Isabella's favorite dogs (Kitty Wink and Patty Boy), see the litters of puppies she bred, and discover how her dogs were a source of comfort to her toward the end of her life. Usually stern in photographs, Isabella--like many people--could not help grinning when posing for photos with puppies. Whether it was collecting Renaissance masterpieces or raising Fox Terriers, this book shows that Gardner approached all aspects of life with enthusiasm and dedication.
Author : Morris Carter
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,58 MB
Release : 1972
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Erica E. Hirshler
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,32 MB
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300249861
In 1916, John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) met Thomas Eugene McKeller (1890-1962) a young African American elevator attendant at Boston's Hotel Vendome. McKeller became the principal model for Sargent's murals in the new wing of the Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, among the painter's most ambitious works. Sargent's nude studies and sketches from this project attest to a close collaboration between the two men that unfolded over nearly ten years. Featuring drawings given by Sargent to Isabella Stewart Gardner and published in full for the first time, a portrait of McKeller, and archival materials reconstructing his life and relationship with Sargent, this book opens new avenues into artist-model relationships and transforms our understanding of Sargent's iconic American paintings. Essays offer the first biography of Thomas McKeller and a window into African America life in early 20th century Roxbury. They address the artist's sexuality, his models, and consider questions of race and gender.
Author : P. Hill
Publisher : Springer
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 24,39 MB
Release : 1975-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9789401025751
To judge by the dictum of al-Ja~i?: (d. A.D. 869), 'Wisdom has descended upon these three: the brain of the Byzantine, the hands of the Chinese, and the tongue of the Arab', in the great age of the
Author : Patricia Vigderman
Publisher : Hol Art Books
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 37,20 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 1936102242
Author : Cher Krause Knight
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 32,75 MB
Release : 2011-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1444360612
This book takes a bold look at public art and its populist appeal, offering a more inclusive guide to America's creative tastes and shared culture. It examines the history of American public art – from FDR's New Deal to Christo's The Gates – and challenges preconceived notions of public art, expanding its definition to include a broader scope of works and concepts. Expands the definition of public art to include sites such as Boston's Big Dig, Las Vegas' Treasure Island, and Disney World Offers a refreshing alternative to the traditional rhetoric and criticism surrounding public art Includes insightful analysis of the museum and its role in relation to public art
Author : Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Publisher : Trustees
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 29,43 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Art
ISBN :
Author : Donna M. Lucey
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 25,17 MB
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393634787
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection “[Lucey] delivers the goods, disclosing the unhappy or colorful lives that Sargent sometimes hinted at but didn’t spell out.”—Boston Globe In this seductive, multilayered biography, based on original letters and diaries, Donna M. Lucey illuminates four extraordinary women painted by the iconic high-society portraitist John Singer Sargent. With uncanny intuition, Sargent hinted at the mysteries and passions that unfolded in his subjects’ lives. These women inhabited a rarefied world of wealth and strict conventions—yet all of them did something unexpected, something shocking, to upend society’s rules.
